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TIL Cleveland, Ohio has set it’s river on fire… thirteen times.

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ByvW TIL that in 2009, a search by German police for a woman whose DNA was linked to 40 crimes ended with the discovery that forensic swabs had been contaminated by a woman working in the factory that manufactured them
E1mWd TIL the line "They call me Mr. Pig" in the Lion King is a reference to the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night
4l46 TIL, even though the Unseen University predates Hogwarts, Terry Pratchett was repeatedly asked if he got the idea from Harry Potter. He jokingly claimed he did. And added that, “I of course used a time machine.”
YQdd TIL a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England
neGbP TIL that the decline of the Maya may have been strongly attributed to inter-city warfare, and hieroglyphs in 2002 tell the story.