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TIL most American households don't have an electric kettle.

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5Y7W9 TIL that JFK's famous "we choose to go to the moon" speech was made at Rice University, and the line immediately prior to "we choose to go to the moon" was "Why does Rice play Texas?" People were still laughing as he started that now-famous section of the speech.
DQ4MY TIL that in 2011 a Russian would-be suicide bomber died when her mobile phone detonator was activated by a spam message wishing her a happy new year
ADmMw TIL that a man was convicted to prison for a lifetime due to a testimony given by a ghost.
neZmW TIL that every live of a mammal ends with a expiration(exhalation) , because while inspiration(inhalation) is an active process, expiration is passive, which means when we die we automatically exhale because the diaphragm relaxes.
D1kMp TIL that Native Americans have been traditionally practicing controlled burns in California for wildfires since the 1800's until being regulated.