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TIL 85% of wildfires in the United States are caused by humans

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vPe1B TIL Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was approached by the label about building a whole new project all around him, whereas he told them to “go fuck themselves”
Odna TIL the founder of the FBI, who had also served as Secretary of the Navy and US Attorney General was the great nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
E1eQp TIL about the "Coolidge effect," male animals preferring to mate with new females. Pres. Coolidge and his wife visited a farm, & Mrs. Coolidge learning a rooster mated a dozen times a day, said "Tell Mr. Coolidge." Pres. Coolidge told the rooster had a new hen each time, said "Tell Mrs. Coolidge."
Vjd0 TIL: Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest relationships in all of social psychology. Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses.
loPKB TIL If humans lived long enough, they would all eventually develop cancer. This is because of inherent limits in the DNA repair mechanisms.