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TIL only 20% of Texas prisons have Air Conditioning. Temps are said to regularly reach 110°+ inside cell blocks during the summer.

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4XQPb TIL: Spirit Rover got a significant extension to its mission on Mars when it's solar panels were scrubbed of dust by a passing dust devil in 2005.
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KML9 TIL: Like many deep-sea cephalopods, vampire squid lack ink sacs. If threatened, instead of ink, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light is ejected from the arm tips.
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