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TIL 71% of firefighters are volunteers.

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OxXe TIL male ants do not have fathers because unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs become females
BrPxW TIL that Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the southerns states, then returned again and again to rescue 70 more enslaved people. Then later, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada. During the American Civil War she helped the Union Army.
LQlOr TIL that Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi starred in an episode of X-Files together in 1995.
arY9 TIL Herpes can immunize you against the Bubonic Plague.
ne1XW TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.