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TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests

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56Nn TIL in 1867 after Union soldiers set fire to Columbia, SC, the New York Fire Dep. raised money for a hose carriage; Colombia promised to return the favor whenever New York needed it. Shortly after 9/11, Colombia Fire Dep. followed up and raised money for a new fire truck for the NYPD.
4XRoa TIL the Revenue generated from the success of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" helped fund the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
oBR5E TIL that the Japanese have a word ("shimensoka") that means "being forsaken by everybody" or "being surrounded by enemies on all sides"
PyBL TIL that Sony Pictures went so trigger-happy with their illegitimate “copyright infringement” take-downs over the flop ‘Pixels’ that even the official trailer was taken down.
w766 TIL In 1896 in Texas, a railroad agent organized a head-on collision between 2 locomotives as part of a publicity stunt for his railroad company and got 40K people to show up. Unexpectedly, the crash caused both engine boilers to explode, killing 3 people and injuring scores of others.