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TIL Detroiters are 167.8% more likely to be employed in fire fighting than the entire population of Michigan.

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VNy0 TIL A car crashed through the front window of the struggling Cape Cod Potato Chips store in 1980, almost hitting the owner’s daughter. The subsequent insurance payment and publicity from the accident helped tide the company over until the following summer, by which time business was booming.
R7dQ4 TIL that Brian Eno created the Windows 95 startup sound. He ended up finishing the final touches using a Macintosh computer, because he doesn’t like Windows machines.
bbl4 TIL that a Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Medieval Persian scholar, put forward the basic theory of evolution 600 years before Darwin was born
grZZD TIL that among the many CIA plots to assassinate, overthrow, or humiliate Fidel Castro, one plan called for poisoning him so that his beard would fall out.
x6vv7 TIL: Fire ants aren't native to North America and were accidentally imported in the 1930's.