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TIL Deadly heat is killing Americans: climate death toll rises after a decade of federal inaction | US news

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VM8D4 TIL there is a spinner on the bottom of UK pedestrian crossing buttons to help blind people know when the lights are red so it is safe to cross.
wopNY TIL Julius Schmid arrived in NYC as a penniless, partially paralyzed German immigrant. He got a job at a sausage maker where he started selling the leftover animal intestines as condoms. He grew this into a multi-million dollar business eventually being named "the undisputed king of condoms".
4B6o TIL of Johnathan Ayers, the minister murdered by a Georgia drug task force unit in 2009 while he was giving $23 to a woman who was about to be evicted.
vPOLD TIL Charles Barkley was friends with, and went - unannounced - to the funeral of, a cat litter scientist
9RQG TIL The newest US Navy destroyer is so stealthy that they have to affix huge reflectors on it during peacetime operations because radar thinks the 610-foot warship is a 50-foot fishing vessel which has already caused one near-collision with a civillian vssel.