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TIL There’s a restaurant in Milwaukee named “Don’s TV Repair.”

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d1VK TIL tasers shoot confetti with tiny serial numbers printed on it so that it can be linked to the person who fired it.
epdVg TIL after Surtsey volcano emerged from the sea in the 60's, it was declared a reserve to study how life expands to new territories, and only a few humans are allowed to visit with multiple precautions, including ensuring that they don't spread viable seeds in their excrement.
Y704P TIL of the "Gamma Forest" at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. A forest that was exposed to intense radiation in order to study the effects of nuclear war on a living ecosystem
D1r0e TIL Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
wPro TIL that in Rome the ruins of Pompey’s Theatre (the temple where Julius Caesar was assassinated) is now a protected cat sanctuary. This important historical site is now a no-kill zone for various breeds of cats to live peacefully