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TIL over 100 firefighters are arrested for arson per year in the US

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m14Np TIL that sniper Simo Häyhä kept a Winter War diary discovered in 2018 from his nephew's drawer, that can now be read online for free, visualized and contextualized also with his letters and other memories
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xQZo TIL that when confronted by police, a man took his pit bull off the leash, pointed at the cops and yelled “Kill’em boy, kill’em.” The dog responded by biting him in the butt and chasing him into a nearby apartment where the officers promptly arrested him.
Wk7JB TIL that the original TRON movie didn't win any special effects awards because the Motion Picture Academy thought they "cheated" by using computer graphics.
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