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TIL of the jumping cholla, a cactus that can break itself off and embed in you when you get near it.

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4XVPN TIL: Kentucky has 120 counties (4th out of all states) because the rule in the early 1800’s was you needed to be a day rides by horse to the county seat to take care of business.
xV91g TIL that in 1951, a woman sitting in her Florida apartment caught on fire. When found the next day, all that was left was her backbone, her left foot and her skull, shrunk to the size of a cup. Nothing else in the apartment burned. Police were stumped. Some think it was spontaneous human combustion.
J1601 TIL The Onion, the satirical online news organization, originated in 1988 in Madison, WI as a weekly print publication. The weekly printed media continued until 2013.
EgZnp TIL in 1933 'stereo records' invented by Alan Dower Blumlein. Sadly, Blumlein did not live to see the lasting impact his many innovations had. He was killed on 7 June 1942, when the Halifax bomber he was flying in crashed during a trial of the H2S radar system. He was 38.
ADexn TIL that Sister Rosetta Tharpe pioneered many of the guitar techniques fundamental to modern rock/metal as early as the 30s and 40s