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TIL that Monday kicked off Good Night Lights week in Providence, RI, where each night at 8:30pm residents with a view of Hasbro Children’s Hospital flicker lights in their homes for one minute to signal goodnight to patients there.

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gmkb TIL 165 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln became the first and only president to register a patent; the invention, which was never produced, was an idea for lifting boats over obstructions if they got stuck.
5VKkD TIL that tetanus is the only vaccine-preventable disease that is caused by an infection but is not contagious.
MLBW TIL the town Fucking, Austria’s only reported crime was theft of many Fucking road signs. In ‘05 they were replaced with antitheft ones & CCTV cameras to deter tourists filming sex there. PoliceChief:“We wont stand for Fucking signs being removed. It may be amusing…but Fuckings simply Fucking to us”
VMpYm TIL that the last German plane to fly over Britain during WW2 was a jet-engined bomber.
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