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TIL the Palace Theater Light (Or Eternal Light) is the second oldest light bulb still working in the U.S. Installed in 1908 just a few years after the Centennial Light. Both have carbon filaments and were made by the Shelby Electric Company

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x66JD TIL there is an Angel Statue in a mississippi cemetery called " Turning Angel" because, according to some, it turns to look at cars driving by.
0w9Oj TIL that most cheeses are not vegetarian because they contain an ingredient (rennet) that is usually made from animal stomachs.
b9E9Z TIL there's a species of ants that abducts larvae of other colonies to use them as slaves. Their own "workers" do nothing but these raids.
D1wgD TIL that after being shot in a failed assassination attempt in 1981, President Ronald Reagan's first remark to the First Lady was "Honey, I forgot to duck" a reference to a one-liner used by boxer Jack Dempsey after he lost his heavyweight title.
XEP5j TIL about the process of Natural Beekeeping and the Kenyan Top Bar Hive which also offers solutions to the falling bee populations