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TIL that in 2022, Belle Isle Park in Detroit had to temporary close their giant slide due to people going down the slide at excessive speeds. Before closing, video of children going up and down the bumps on the slide and slamming back down were captured and posted on social media that scared some.

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yQ9V TIL that the U.S. Census lists prisoners as residents of the communities where they are confined. Therefore, voters who live in legislative districts with prisons, typically in rural areas, wield more political clout than other voters.
4XG8g TIL about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, who was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Punjab. She played a leading role in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was instrumental in winning women their right to vote.
9YrO6 TIL the Nokia ringtone is taken from a classical guitar piece called 'Gran Val' by Francisco Tarrega
lENV TIL Adult California ground squirrels have a protein in their blood that allow them to survive rattlesnake bites. The squirrels also heat up their tail and wave them to let the rattlesnake know they are aware of them since rattlesnakes have infrared vision. They don’t do this with other snakes.
wLop1 TIL of Giordano_Bruno, who was the first person outside of ancient Greece to postulate that the sun was just another star and that other stars likely had their own planets. In 1600 he was burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for heresy.