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TIL that Michigan has a formal and informal way to spell “marijuana”

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D9dv TIL after Hurricane Ike, Comcast customers were billed as much as $1000 for unreturned equipment like DVRs that had been destroyed by the hurricane.
epyYL TIL that despite the blue-ringed octopus's deadly reputation, they have only managed to kill sixteen people so far.
Pwjw TIL in 1991 Maurice Krafft, a french Volcanologist, was filmed saying “I am never afraid because I have seen so many eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”. He was killed during an eruption the very next day alongside his wife on Mt. Unzen in Japan.
NOGP TIL Only One Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Saved in 1st Two Seasons of Kitchen Nightmares is Still Open
p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.