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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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LQmy9 TIL that the last living person who was at the Alamo during the battle died less than a month before the end of World War 1. He was not even a year old when the battle occurred.
5Vybp TIL that a US developer who outsourced his job to China for a fifth of his salary was repeatedly named as star employee before getting caught.
gM857 TIL the same voice actor plays Andy in all three Toy Story films, despite the 11 year gap between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3. Andy literally grew up with the rest of us during those movies.
9YnaD TIL Gene Hackman was originally slated to play Mike Brady in ‘The Brady Bunch’.
DQLVJ TIL Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) refers to a lifelong inability to vividly recollect or re-experience personal past events from a first-person perspective.