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TIL that Fema sometimes measures disasters impact using a thing called the waffle house index. This is because there are so many of them and they have the unique ability to operate completely off gas for power/heat/cook. So if the waffle house is closed then its tantamount to complete disaster!

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QJGrX TIL Gene Roddenberry never gave Captain Kirk a birthplace more specific than the state of Iowa. In 1985, when trying to find a theme for its annual festival, the town of Riverside voted to proclaim itself the future birthplace of the Starfleet officer. Roddenberry gave the town his blessing.
jXwp TIL a man aspiring to become a lawyer was denied admission to the New York bar because his student debt exceeded $400,000. Five appellate judges concluded his payments had been too meager to date and thus he had not “established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney”.
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