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TIL the Largest Source of Power Outages in the US is not Lightening or Drunk Drivers, but Squirrels.

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5Ye8B TIL that a Ugandan mother gave birth to a girl on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston, but the newborn was considered and processed as a Canadian citizen by customs as she happened to be born in Canadian airspace.
78RAb TIL that Scientists Have Discovered A Bird Graveyard in Antarctica, and a Black Lake That Never Freezes
P1QWO TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.
e07w4 TIL Logging, fishing, and aircraft piloting/flight engineering are the top 3 most dangerous jobs in America, while law enforcement and firefighting are ranked 15th on the list. Taxi drivers are more than twice as likely to be murdered on the job than law enforcement personnel.
bpoN TIL Andy Warhol had a sketch sent to the moon on Apollo 12. It was a penis.