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TIL Lexington Kentucky accepts canned food as payment for parking fines to feed the homeless.

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dDjPj TIL that in 1931, New Zealand farmers accidentally made their pants flammable by treating them with insect repellent, causing spontaneous combustion!
OoDOa TIL that ants can literally fall from any height without dying.
rNREW TIL that American writer-producer Joe Bodolai (SNL and Kids In The Hall) moved to Canada in the 1970s to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War.
DvBP TIL that California’s official state animal is extinct.
4d86 TIL in the 2004 exercise between the US and the Indian Air Forces, Indian pilots notched up an astounding 9:1 kill ratio. U.S. pilots said that the Indian pilots showed innovation and flexibility in their tactics. and that they came into the exercise underrating the training and tactics of the IAF