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TIL that Johnny Cash caused a forest fire which burned hundreds of acres and killed 49 of the area's 53 endangered California Condors, nearly wiping them out in the region

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ymOe TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.
nW9JG TIL After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, engineers carried diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs in buckets to keep the generators running to power a data center.
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