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TIL: Due to widespread unemployment and car ownership in the US in the 1910s, an Uber-like taxi service started called Jitney where individuals used their person cars to drive people to their destination for money

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v1RgD TIL: Of Nutty Narrows Bridge; a bridge built in the treetops during the 1960s specifically to help squirrels cross a freeway in Washington without getting hit by cars.
9YYoX Moonlight triggers the world’s biggest orgy, strange creatures emerge from the depths, and waves glow blue. Some phenomena in the ocean can only be witnessed after dark.
nenG TIL that Alan Rabinowitz, a renowned wildlife conservationist, devoted himself to the cause because he was a severe stutterer as a child, and he never stuttered when he talked to his stuffed animals.
9wOJB TIL that Norman Rockwell attempted to enlist in the Navy during WW1 but was unsuccessful due to being 8 pounds underweight. He was able to enlist the next day after consuming a substantial amount of food, including bananas, liquids, and doughnuts.
eBVJ TIL a substance called Dioxygen Difluoride (O2F2) is so volatile that it makes almost any organic substance ignite and explode at any temperature hotter than -300°F (-185°C). It can literally set ice on fire