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TIL Chico, California enacts a $500 fine on anyone caught detonating nuclear weapons in city limits

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aOk0 TIL that on August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a wave of concentrated carbon dioxide that killed around 1,800 people and thousands of animals almost instantaneously. One witness said, “On that day there were no flies on the dead. The flies were dead too.”
5VQKB TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time.
nDlb TIL that Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
OG1oe TIL Dr. Seuss's widow had stringent terms when she sold the film rights to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. They included $5m upfront, 4% of the box-office, 50% of merchandising & 70% of book tie-in profits. Also, only directors & writers who'd earned at least $1m on a previous project were eligible.
Revw TIL: Jesse Owens, winner of four golds in the ‘36 Olympics said, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”