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TIL that the city of Charlotte, NC is nicknamed The Hornets Nest because Cornwallis called it that after Charlotte residents drove his forces out during the Revolutionary War.

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Axgd TIL that sailors wore gold ear-rings because the value was enough to bury you in a foreign country.
kOJJ5 TIL New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's 2006 deadly airplane crash hit the apartment of the same woman who was critically injured at the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after the Cat in The Hat balloon struck a lamppost that wound up hitting her in the head.
6EA7l TIL a man in England accidentally blew up his parents’ house after he knocked on a stove’s control, which burned a clothes basket, which then lit a grocery bag on fire and caused an aerosol can of deodorant to explode, resulting in £20,000 ($26,182) in damages.
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