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TIL that 99 year old Dick Van Dyke had to be rescued by three neighbors after he was found crawling to his vehicle trying to evacuate a California wildfire last December

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RrYw TIL that in the 80s the Medellin Cartel had a complex in the jungle called Tranquility-land; it had 19 cocaine laboratories, 8 airstrips, running water, its own electricity system and bedrooms for the workers. When it was raided, 13.8 tons of cocaine were destroyed.
45Yo TIL of a prisoner, who after getting his sentence reduced from electrocution by the chair, shocked and killed himself with a TV while on his toilet.
1aW77 TIL the Iroquois Theater in Chicago was billed as "Absolutely Fireproof" in advertisements when it opened. It lasted 37 days before being destroyed in what is still the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history, leaving 602 dead and 250 injured.
0jgy TIL During a 1978 Monday Night Football game, to fill dead air, Howard Cosell commented on a delicious new snack he was eating, thus stadium nachos went mainstream.
9GD6 TIL Jason Lee, of My Name is Earl finally quit Scientology! (In 2016)