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TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year

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JVmm TIL Lyndon Johnson liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving his amphibious car downhill into a lake while shouting “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”
P1l5L TIL that most close door elevator buttons in the US do not actually do anything.
rB41 TIL that the Museum of Communism in the Czech Republic is located above a McDonald’s
QN90k TIL In 1974 there were so many tornado warnings in Indiana that forecasters couldn't keep up. In frustration, they ended up putting the entire state under a tornado warning. This was the first and only time this has ever happened.
R7769 TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake