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TIL that Utica High School’s gym was used in an urban legend about a high school massacre

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QKoE TIL that Johnny Cash’s truck caused a massive forest fire that nearly wiped out an endangered species of condor. Upon being sued by the U.S. national government, Cash proclaimed: “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.”
WkEg9 TIL Ben Franklin, while feuding with Titan Leeds, used astrology to predict his death and published this in the Poor Richards Almanac, and when Leeds didn't die on that date, referred to him as "the ghost of Titan Leeds" thereafter and encouraged him to pass on.
6y4Q TIL when the words and the numbers on a check don’t match, the words prevail. This is because the Uniform Commercial Code dictates: “If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.”
PYrOE TIL that the southern most point in Canada -- Middle Island -- is at latitude 41.7, just 33km (20 miles) north of the 42nd parallel, where California begins
neNxB TIL about Vulcan, an isolated WV town which, after a bridge collapse left them with no legal road access, appealed to the Soviet Union for funding. As intended, the Soviet Union used Vulcan as an example of American failure, prompting international attention and 1.3M$ of US funding for a new bridge.