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TIL There's roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires

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0wnQL TIL when basketball first started, the backboard was not a designed piece of equipment. They were added years later to keep fans from interfering with the game.
ZM7Y TIL the letters “ough” can be pronounced 9 different ways as shown in this sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
mPwP TIL that today is the birthday of the New York subway. The subway system officially opened on Oct 27 1904 making 110 years old. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
YR8B TIL that Henry Ford loved Hitler and received the Nazi regime’s highest medal for a foreigner
x6EE5 TIL that the desert scenes in the movie Ishtar were filmed in the actual Sahara Desert, instead of the Southwestern U.S., because Columbia's parent company Coca-Cola had money in Morocco it could not repatriate.