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TIL A solar plant in the Mojave Desert generates so much heat it incinerates birds in mid flight

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kJAmg TIL in 1984 three hippos died in a West German zoo after an elephant opened a valve and sent hot water into their pool, generating steam that suffocated them.
AD06o TIL Brendan Fraser pays $900,000 a year in alimony to his ex-wife Afton Smith. They got separated in 2008…
x6A4g TIL Gucci Mane Owns an Iced-Out Odie Chain
b91EN TIL Incest is illegal in Italy only if it provokes public scandal
dDXQK TIL that in a series of experiments in the 1950s, Solomon Asch asked a group of actors and a single test subject what the longest line was in a "vision test". The actors would intentionally answer incorrectly, causing the subject to also answer incorrectly, despite it being very obvious.