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TIL it is estimated over 95% of structural fires in Detroit are due to arson – fifty times the national average.

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BmxD TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts’ Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
bQn4 TIL that Australia is as big as the continental United States of America
WkBEL TIL of the Order of Brothelyngham, a mock Catholic order that satirized corrupt medieval clergy by electing a lunatic as abbot and kidnapping local citizens.
Y70vG [TIL] There have been 2,121 atomic explosions on Earth since July, 1945
d8nYK TIL that neon nail polish is not legal in the U.S. This is because the FDA has not approved the chemicals used in them and because companies do not want to register these new chemicals since it would be too expensive. This is why neon nail polish available in the U.S is actually imported.