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TIL Bulgarians refer to bucket hats as "idiotka", idiot hats
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TIL people gave fast-food hamburgers to rural crows to try to find out why urban crows are getting high cholesterol
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Til of the Peshtigo fire, the deadliest wildfire in world history that took place in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871. It occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, and has been largely forgotten, though it killed 5 times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.
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TIL that US president Jimmy Carter issued a state of emergency in 1979 that is still active today, over 40 years later. This state of emergency gives "extra ordinary powers" to the president to "seize property, call up the National Guard and hire and fire military officers at will."
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TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
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TIL In their most productive week, the Pixar team animated 3½ minutes of the film Toy Story (1995)