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TIL Te-Ahu-Po'o Means "The Place of Skulls"

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YpwrA TIL During the 2021 ice storm in Texas an off-duty paramedic's FJ Cruiser was crushed by a semi truck in a pileup on I-35. The paramedic survived the hit, climbed out of his crushed vehicle, and began applying aid to others in the crash.
pY7JZ TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s
LaKV TIL The little button on top of a baseball cap is called a Squatchee.
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