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TIL that firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground in 2010 because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee.

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EJd0 TIL an old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn’t like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied ‘No, you didn’t.’, causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.
Yp6WW TIL that Frankenstein was the name of the scientist: the creature had no name, and was called as 'thing', 'fiend', 'spectre', 'demon' or 'ogre'
ja0E TIL, of Audrey Cosens who after losing his commander took charge, directing tank fire, and then single-handedly stormed a house killing 22 Germans and took the rest prisoner. He then took 2 more houses before being killed
PYP8G TIL that none of the architecture on Euro banknotes is real, as the EU prohibited displaying any national monuments, so to not give greater prominence to one country over another. Hence, for the €5 note, a computer was used to scan multiple European bridges and combine them into one neutral design.
KOJm6 TIL an 8oz cup of coffee can contain between 1.1-1.8 grams of soluble fiber