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TIL the world's longest burning fire is 6000 years old

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wL80M TIL that in 1926, due to the near eradication of predators, 50 million mice flooded into Taft, CA- a 20,000 to one mouse-to-person ration. There were so many mice, that the roadkill from mice on streets made roads too slick for cars to drive on.
l7aJG TIL beaver dams saved a wetland in the Czech Republic. The government was planning to do the same thing, but the bureaucracy took too long. The dams saved $1.2 million.
QVQM TIL that President Andrew Jackson told Vice President John Calhoun “If you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body” when South Carolina tried to nullify federal law in 1832.
X0eOr TIL of the 1920 Wall Street bombing which killed 40 people and was never solved and was the deadliest terrorist attack in US then. Although investigators and historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.
l7Rr1 TIL about the Earth Inductor Compass. Patented in 1912, obsolete by the mid-1930s, it is a type of compass that uses the principle of electromagnetic induction with the Earth's magnetic field. One was used by Charles Lindbergh in his solo flight NYC to Paris in 1927.