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TIL after the festival Burning Man, a cleaning crew combs through the grounds to clean up “MOOP” or trash as small as single hairs from wigs in order to pass a federal inspection.

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aQ1L TIL the “Worst X-Man Ever” is Bailey Hoskins. He has the power to explode once, since the blast would kill him.
6Ekb7 TIL of Forrest Spaulding who in 1938 drafted a Library Bill of Rights against censorship. When challenged for a library copy of Mein Kampf he responded, "if more people had read it, Hitler's despotism might have been prevented". Spaulding's bill was later adopted by the American Library Association.
9wWmM TIL Analtech, the name of a U.S. based manufacturer of glass plates and other accessories, became a liability with the rise of the internet as YouTube videos promoting their products directed viewers to less than wholesome videos and clients reported being blocked by their own security protocols.
kn87 TIL: There was a planned Power Rangers series where Tommy Oliver (Green/White) would unite all the previous ranger teams under a pentagon style organization
Oo1L6 TIL in pre-industrial times (before electricity) it was normal to get up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, resume normal activities and then return back to sleep until morning.