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

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Kn54 TIL that R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, never included things like divorce, drug use, and abuse because he didn’t “really want to terrify kids.” He wanted his stories to be strictly fantasy and kids to know that it couldn’t really happen.
40lX TIL 90 percent of the world’s people live in the Northern Hemisphere.
M7Ej8 TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.
jNa6a TIL there are children in Kosovo named "Tonibler", named after Tony Blair for his support of the 1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia.
0Yn5 TIL that two Japanese sled dogs survived alone in Antarctica for 11 months