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TIL in Death Valley the ground is so hot, residents disconnect their water heaters in the summer and use the hot water tap for “cold” water.

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YpO7d TIL American Olympians get taxed if they win a medal.
ADl4a TIL that Dick Van Dyke was unaware of his horrifically bad Cockney accent in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. None of his fellow actors said a word about it.
AYb7 TIL that Macklemore worked at a juvenile detention center to help the detainees express themselves by writing and creating rap lyrics
m1lnE TIL that ~30% of Israeli McDonalds don’t serve McFlurrys because they are under kosher supervision, which means that they don’t serve meat and dairy products together
YpM4G TIL Americans, who only had to pay for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, struggled to pull together funding. Joseph Pulitzer started a crowdfunding campaign and gathered $100,000 from more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than $1.