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TIL that 67% of all fire departments in the United States are entirely or mostly staffed by volunteers

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EgZQd TIL that percentages are reversible
Yg8B TIL that the RGB color gamut used in electronics can not display all possible colors. Even if yellow is added, the device can still only display 87% of all colors that humans are able to perceive.
MW9A TIL that indentured servants were so called because their contracts were cut in two along a jagged edge so both parties could prove authenticity later by fitting them together, and the cuts looked like they were bitten by teeth
RA04 TIL that Adolf Hitler scribbled a prototype for a car in 1932, sitting at a restaurant table in Munich, which would later go on to become the immensely successful design for a car we now know as the Volkswagen Beetle.
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