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TIL Texas Overtakes California as Leader in Solar Power Installations

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9nwD TIL actor Stephen Tobolowsky (Ned Ryerson) was held hostage at a Dallas Safeway when he was 25. A stranger stopped him and said “I see you have mangos, the most exotic of fruit” before putting a .45 to his head. Tobolowsky then gave the man his actual address and invited him over for dinner.
Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
xjl0 TIL The US Federal Reserve is privately owned
n8Z7 TIL Sandra Bullock is fluent in German
p8nkO TIL of the biblical practice of shmita - every seven years, farmland would be left fallow. Any crops that grew were free for the taking by all, and all debts were negated.