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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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VMm6m TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout was created in the early 1870s for typewriters. It was purposely designed to slow the user down so the typewriter keys wouldn't jam. 150 years later, we are still using the same keyboard design even though we don't have to worry about keys jamming.
kJO9m TIL that Eel blood is toxic to humans, but both cooking and the digestive process destroy the toxic protein.
16n1d TIL that strong evidence points to a black hole at the center of our own, and most other galaxies.
pYw74 TIL that in 1493 Christopher Columbus first discovered Pineapple in Guadeloupe. By the 1700’s it was being imported to the American Colonies as well and could cost someone as much as $8,000 of today’s US dollars.
1aGVr TIL that because of the Universe's expansion, a signal from an event happening at present will never reach the Earth if the event is more than 16 billion light years away