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TIL firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”

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8ak58 TIL that "fact-checking" site Snopes is 50% owned by an Ad Agency called Proper Media.
WkjwN TIL that the pen caps have holes in them to prevent suffocation, in case they were swallowed. As roughly 100 people die in the US each year from choking on pen lids
nePYr TIL in 1983 the top dart players of the world including all active former world champions broke away from the British Darts Organization and founded their own organization, and although there have been conciliation movements, the split remains to this day.
j6dva TIL: I have been using nasal spray wrongly all these years
JY7M4 TIL Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope, someone standing at the base would not be able to see the summit because it's beyond the horizon.