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TIL half of the firefighters battling California wildfires are prisoners in California jails

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m1pLP TIL About the Tsavo Man Eaters. A pair of male lions who systematically hunted and killed Railway Workers in 1898.
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ADo57 TIL about the "Kentucky Meat Shower," an incident in 1876 wherein chunks of meat fell from the sky, sparking lots of wild theories about how it happened. To this day, there's no 100% certain explanation
R7kNQ TIL of Naoto Matsumura, the "guardian of Fukushima’s animals." He is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone and cares for all the animals left behind. He refuses to worry that radiation levels will kill him, saying "I'll probably be dead by then anyway."