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TIL that on bonfire night in the UK (Nov 5), Classic FM airs a program called "Pet Classics" to help calm cats and dogs frightened by all the fireworks.

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xQ65 TIL 242 people died and at least 630 others were injured in a nightclub fire in Brazil in 2013. Everything could’ve been avoided if outdoor pyrotechnics hadn’t been used indoors and if people trying to get away hadn’t been trapped by security guards demanding their bills to be paid.
rN0ww TIL that NASA’s computers for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 had less processing power than a modern smartphone. The guidance computer had only 64KB of memory and ran at 0.043 MHz.
Wkbx8 TIL Cicadas live underground for 17 years before coming out to mate
n5rB TIL that Mississippi has the highest rate of child vaccination of any state, at 99.7%.
gMLG7 TIL: in 2015, NYPD went on strike to show how important they were to the city and later studies showed the rates of crimes actually decreased