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TIL Wyoming only has 2 sets of escalators

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5YAmB TIL that before the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show, the show's producer called up Prince to ask him if he was okay playing in the rain, to which Prince responded: "Can you make it rain harder?"
MLlB TIL a Florida woman accidentally burned down a 3500 year old cypress tree, the 5th oldest in the country, because she was smoking meth under it and lit a fire so that she could see her meth better.
W7BJ9 TIL My 8x great grandfather was one of the few individuals in the Americas executed by the capital punishment of the breaking wheel in front of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 7, 1757.
j68lj TIL that if you're over the age of 62 and in the US, you can get a free lifetime pass to all federal recreation areas managed by the National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, US Forest Service, or the US Army Corps of Engineers for $80.
5Yjrn TIL that the observable universe is about 93 billion light years, despite the fact that the universe is only 13.8 billion years old. This is because the speed of light only applies to objects moving through space, not the expansion of space itself.