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TIL Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter on 9/11.

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50YQ TIL during the 1950s, the U.S. military tested nuclear weapons so close to Las Vegas, that you could clearly see the mushroom clouds from downtown Hotels. This became a temporary tourist attraction.
WdAY TIL that the Ku Klux Klan and the Westbroro Baptist Church have denounced one another. The KKK opposes the WBC anti-soldier statements, and the WBC opposes the KKK’s racism.
jNZLE TIL that while they were originally thought to be white with black stripes because of their white belly, zebras are actually black (where the pigment is activated) with white stripes (where the pigment is inhibited) as shows embryological evidence
ANRMx TIL that Giorno means Day in italian, and given that Giorno's whole power is giving life to inanimate objects, he is basically named New Day = New Life!!!
mxdQp TIL that in 2015, Christopher Ingraham of Washington Post wrote an article about Red Lake County in Minnesota being "the absolute worst place to live in America." The unhappy county residents invited the reporter to come visit. He liked it so much, less than 1 year later he moved his family there.