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TIL: Obese people's cremations can cause grease fires...

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x6pbb TIL Gabe Newell owns marine research organization Inkfish, which operates "Limiting Factor" - a submersible which had previously reached Challenger Deep on multiple occasions and traveled to the deepest points of all five oceans.
VB0KZ TIL ABBA won the Eurovision in ‘74 and then during the turn of the century, they refused an offer of $1bn to tour the world for 100 shows.
kJv6e TIL in the 1800s, before refrigeration, ice used to be imported from countries that could harvest it from natural sources
oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.
W7xG4 TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its 36,000 parking meters to a foreign-owned company based in the U.A.E, receiving a one-time lump sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. These parking meters generate about $200 million in revenue annually.