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TIL there has been a fire burning since 1962 underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania causing residents to evacuate and has turned the town into a "near-ghost town" with only 7 residents left.

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4VrJ TIL there is a word that rhymes with orange. Sporange is a botany term that means “spore case.”
rReX4 TIL Terri Schiavo, the center of a famous right-to-die case, has three dates on her headstone: Born, Departed (the day she went into a vegetative state in 1990), and At Rest (the day she died after her feeding tube was removed in 2005)
WkG8d TIL American Trillion is smaller than European Trillion.
4XWwb TIL John Boyne wrote “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” in two days, and that the book has been condemned by many Jewish scholars for pushing historical inaccuracies, downplaying the horror of concentration camps, and presenting Nazis as sympathetic figures
xVv5 TIL that a psychologist attempted to raise a chimpanzee named Lucy as a human being. One day, he walked into her room and was shocked to find her masturbating to a copy of Playgirl.