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TIL The lighter was invented before the match

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OoPE7 TIL that 14 of the 60 residents of the village of New Rome, Ohio were police officers. The police department's only purpose was issuing traffic tickets, and they brought in around $400,000 a year, mostly by citing drivers for things such as improperly tinted windows. The town was dissolved in 2004.
JbMv TIL: “Doctors can use the foreskins of circumcised infants to grow skin for burn victims. Just one foreskin can create 23,000 square meters of skin”
dDEBE TIL according to National Parks Authority data, Grand Canyon National Park had the most search and rescue (SAR) incidents between 2018-2020 with 785. And Mount Rainier National Park has the most open SAR incidents with 101, followed by Blue Ridge Parkway's 28.
d8Nm8 TIL a quarter of cowboys were black
1agwD TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.