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TIL Between 30% to 40% of firefighters in California's state fire department that fights much of the wildfires across the state are prison inmates.

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wLd6o TIL about “concussionist" R.G. Dyrenforth, hired by the U.S. government in 1891 to make it rain over Texas by blasting water from the skies with explosives. Despite being "certain that rain can be caused by explosion in mid-air," he just managed to catch all manner of things on fire with his kites.
VMgBB TIL Ann Wilson of Heart wrote the song Barracuda after her recording company created a rumor that her sister and her were having an incestuous relationship for publicity. Following a concert, a fan asked how her “lover” was. Enraged, she went directly to her hotel room and began writing the lyrics.
worn6 TIL that in 2021, scientists successfully revived microscopic organisms called rotifers that had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years, and they were still able to reproduce.
RRm6 TIl that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide since the war than were killed during it.
4kmOR TIL of the Great Donor Show, a controversial reality TV show from 2007 where a terminally ill woman intended to donate a kidney to one of 25 participants. The show was staged, with the ultimate motive of increasing the amount of donors, a goal in which it succeeded. The show won an emmy