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TIL The 1st, 2nd and 5th deadliest wildfires in recorded history all happened on the same day in different places in the United States.

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QJby6 TIL The full name for the State of Rhode Island
ZnAB TIL of the Croydon Facelift: Hair is pulled back and tied up so tightly that it pulls the face tighter. (Victoria Beckham wore the style on ‘American Idol’.) The hairstyle is also known as the 'council house facelift’ or 'Essex facelift’ in the UK, because of its association with “low class” women.
7r65b TIL Some lightning rods on the tops of buildings were made with radioactive materials. It was thought that the surrounding air, ionized by radiation would be more conductive and make the lightning rods more effective
vPX4L TIL that French schools used to assign 'Le Symbole' to kids caught speaking minority languages(i.e. Breton, Occitan, Basque, etc). The only way to rid oneself of the symbol is to snitch on a fellow student. At the end of the day, the student with the symbol will receive some form of punishment
woKJP TIL about the 2008 Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident, the most expensive plane crash in history ($1.4 billion)