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TIL that fans dont make the room colder, they make you colder by evaporating your sweat

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GYwgj TIL that the song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by Sublime isn't about the South Central Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four police police officers in the beating of Rodney King. It's about the Long Beach, CA riots that erupted a few days later as a result of the South Central riots.
P1knZ TIL In 1990, over 100,000 people visited San Luis Obispo during the Cal Poly Poly Royal event. A full scale riot broke out both in town and at the college when several thousand students and visitors began throwing bottles and rocks at police, flipping cars and various other destructive activities.
awO00 TIL that public guillotine executions in France were stopped after someone recorded the execution of convicted murderer Eugene Weidmann.
BrW0b TIL Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
J1B8m TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so.