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TIL: Delivering pizza is more dangerous than firefighting.

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4kelb TIL for 2 years the US had a 100 year old man as president of the senate; being 3rd in line for the presidency
wM98 TIL: Post 9/11, every major US airline that exists today declared bankruptcy.
pY8JQ TIL that modern diesel trains can move a ton of freight 492 miles on a single gallon of gas.
NwrP TIL The dementors in Harry Potter were meant to symbolize JK Rowling’s depression.
0dMQ1 TIL that there are Unicode characters that represent dicks 𓂸𓏀. Unicode v5.2 introduced Egyptian hieroglyphs in 2009, and among them are the phallic hieroglyphs D52 π“‚Έ and D53 π“‚Ί