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TIL - Somebody designed a candle that recycles itself

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Mwyb TIL Lexington Kentucky accepts canned food as payment for parking fines to feed the homeless.
X0xBX TIL that when John Dillinger was shot down by the FBI, pedestrians dabbed their handkerchiefs in his blood to keep as souvenirs
5YgX8 TIL: About the Trojan Room coffee pot at the University of Cambridge which is said to be the inspiration for the first webcam. In 1991 it put a live picture of the office coffee pot on peoples desktops pc’s of the local office LAN so people wouldn’t make a wasted trip.
4XdkJ TIL that On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity replaced the game with a “Bullsh*t” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,”This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. They sold 30,000 copies.
LkoVV TIL that skin creams have contributed to 37 fatal self-incinerations between 2010 and 2017 in England