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TIL that Fire Departments don't actually help get your cat out of trees

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neLOd TIL that the USSR wanted to join NATO
aPwZ TIL Detroit is the only city in the US that has housed a baseball, basketball, football, and hockey team for over 50 years without any of them leaving.
9KdQ TIL in 2007 Islamic scholars in Malaysia spent a year working out how the country’s first astronaut could pray facing Mecca. He was allowed to save his Ramadan fasting till his return
0d4wv TIL that between 2016 and 2019, there was not a single bookstore in the Bronx. Even today there is only one in the entire borough of 1.5 million people.
0wBvj TIL in WW2 when the US Air Force were trying to reduce losses of their bombers, they wanted to add armor to the areas that received the most damage, but a mathematician suggested they add the armor in areas that did not receive damage, as planes shot in those areas never made it back to be analyzed.