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TIL: Miami Beach has banned beachfront hotels from giving out plastic straws

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oR7dr TIL the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry in 2014 sold less than 400 copies
YW9B TIL that after their only son died at the age of 15, Leland Stanford founded Stanford University and told his wife that “the children of California shall be our children.”
VMlLm TIL that in 1900 the Chinatown in Honolulu was intentionally burned down to prevent the further spread of plague. Four months later, Honolulu was plague-free.
mxW4o TIL that a group of hungry wild boars in Tuscany ate $22,000 of Cocaine to foil drug dealers
xVVGk Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.