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TIL After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, engineers carried diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs in buckets to keep the generators running to power a data center.

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7rwwM TIL the town of Two Egg, Florida has their own local monster, described as a ‘small Bigfoot’. His name is the Two Egg Stump-Jumper
wL7b7 TIL Indigenous women and girls are seven times more likely to get murdered in Canada
7rbEL TIL that "Voldemort" (vol de mort) translates from French/Latin to "flight of death;" also "theft by death," or how Voldemort took Harry's parents from him.
OolJY TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link
8a0Qb Today I learned that Jimi Hendrix played guitar in the band of Little Richard, who was upset that Hendrix upstaged him.