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TIL: In the event of a disaster, if you cannot return home and have immediate housing needs, text SHELTER + your ZIP code to 43362 (4FEMA) to find the nearest shelter in your area [Click on “After” tab in the link]

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MeypV TIL "After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, 365" USAF B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers "were destroyed under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The aircraft were stripped of usable parts, chopped into five pieces with a 13,000 pound steel blade and sold for scrap at 12 cents per pound."
wLra8 TIL Hallmark created wrapping paper. In 1917, after running out of tissue paper, the Hall Brother's store in Kansas City resorted to selling colourful envelope liners. This proved to be successful and inspired them to create wrapping paper.
0dvEj TIL following the destruction of the Iberian city of Illiturgis by Publius Cornelius Scipio in 206 BC, the people from the neighbouring city of Astapa–knowing they faced a similar fate, decided to burn the city with all of its treasures and then kill themselves.
E1a7P TIL When Stan Lee first introduced Spider-Man the publisher turned him down. Stan Lee didn't give up and snuck Spider-Man in to the last issue of the shuttered series Amazing Fantasy which went on to become a success.
GYrxE TIL that pigs are cannibalistic towards piglets, largely due to hormonal fluctuations among gilts.