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TIL All QuickTrip gas stations offer a safe house where at risk youth can come in off the street.

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x6jk0 TIL In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the coronagraph that allowed total solar eclipses to be recreated at will. It is essentially a telescope with a small disk in the focal plane to exactly cover the disk of the sun like the moon would
EWJ7 TIL that porn star Eva Angelina is also a real estate agent.
wdg8 TIL the GPS is owned by the United States and was originally developed for military usage but made freely-available in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan after Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down
WKaL TIL the writers of Malcom in the Middle had a game called “What won’t Bryan [Cranston] do?” that culminated in him wearing the infamous suit of bees. They gave up and changed it to “What can’t Bryan do?” which saw Hal disco-skating, washing a car in Daisy Dukes, and painting with his full body.
GBj1 TIL that some modern humane livestock handling systems were designed by Temple Grandin, an Autistic woman who didn’t even talk until she was nearly 4