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TIL Denver, CO has an official mayor's residence that no mayor has ever lived in. It was donated to the city in 1998 and none of the 5 mayors since that time has opted to move in.

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9wx1p TIL that 13% of people who receive CPR outside of a hospital are still alive a year later.
Oo4Q4 TIL the US Military is developing Bomb Sniffing Cyborg Locusts. Since 2016, Researchers at Washington University have attempted to implant locusts with cybernetic enhancements that allow them to be remotely piloted, use their antennae to detect explosives, and wirelessly relay that information back.
Y4dG TIL that Millions of Europeans and Russians were captured as slaves by Ottoman and African Barbary pirates. The coastline from Venice to Malaga was largely depopulated.
lBxK TIL that every Autumn, the Spartans had a period wherein their young men would go into the countryside with daggers and kill slaves without punishment as part of a “manhood test”
8eA5X TIL Wyoming passed a law that bans burying wind turbine blades in landfills