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TIL that Henry Ford founded Kingsford charcoal as a way to process the waste from the wood that was needed for his cars and that Thomas Edison designed Kingsford's first briquette factory.

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O4R7 TIL Soap Lake, Washington USA has spent the last 12 years planning a 60 foot Lava Lamp with lasers that you can walk into.
v7yD TIL that a convenience store employee and his father stole a 5million dollar lottery ticket, told the winner it was only worth $5,000, only paid him $4,000 and then pushed him out the door and locked it.
oB917 TIL the peak of Mount Everest is a "fecal time bomb" due to over six decades worth of human waste being left on the mountain.
5VXdk TIL that, according to the CDC, the job fields with the highest suicide rate per 100,000 people for men is Construction and Extraction (53.2) while for women it’s Art, Design, Entertainment, Sports and Media (15.6)
nerG TIL that a 14 year old boy has managed to have over 12 billion trees planted all over the world