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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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8j0b TIL the Americans botched the hanging of the German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keital. The trapdoor was too small and he smashed his head going down, and the force didn’t break his neck so it took a full 24 minutes for him to suffocate.
wLXr8 TIL Loneliness has a greater chance of causing premature death than obesity.
kOpXm TIL that the Lumière brothers, the inventors of motion picture, once said that "the cinema is an invention without any future" and gave up on the technology to go back to focusing on photography, so their involvement in the early history of film was quite brief
J1yy1 TIL computer servers are getting so hot and cooling them emits so much carbon (as much as the aviation industry), manufacturers are dunking servers into nonconductive liquid tanks to cool them and help their clients meet power usage effectiveness regulations
6Edyl TIL that George Washington conducted a mass inoculation of the Continental Army against smallpox.