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TIL in 2011, Firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn down because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”.

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LQO9v TIL Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are enshrined as deities at a Shinto shrine in Hawaii
79Mr TIL that the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, had 45 sons, and almost 100 children total. The next king will be the first king that isn’t Ibn Saud’s direct son.
d8gYr TIL in 1985 Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant covered the 60s ballad "Sea of Love". It was put on the B-side of a Rocking At Midnight as a throwaway track, and when it went popular Plant feared his career was finished and he'd be remembered as a crooner of love songs.
DQvEv TIL according to a 1984 case report: a patient survived acute alcohol intoxication with an unprecedented blood alcohol level of 1,500 mg/dL (or 1.5%).
LMxV TIL in 2006, the Indy Car Series switched over to Honda engines and since then, there have been no Indy Car engine failures.