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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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e08WD TIL being a cop ranks as the 22nd most dangerous job in the US, behind professions like cement mason and crossing guard
OoJ96 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.
9YMWB TIL Hugh Jackman agreed to make a cameo in "X-Men First Class" on two conditions. FOX had to make a charitable contribution to his children's school and he wanted to be the only one to curse at the main characters. The studio agreed to both terms.
xLR0 TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan, a world champion swimmer who after finishing his routine 12 mile run heard a bus crash into a lake. He then swam down 33 ft and one by one saved 20 passengers. After receiving multiple wounds, he was in a coma for 46 days, which subsequently ended his professional career.
kndg TIL that our brains aren’t fully protected by myelin until we are in our early or sometimes even late twenties and the last part to gain that protection controls our feelings of empathy