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TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses

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nWXQ7 TIL that internal combustion engines can run on wood. Using a device called a gasifier, the engine can run on the gasses produced when wood or charcoal burns.
lKJG TIL that in 1956, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (author of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) discovered the underwater ruins of an ancient temple in Sri Lanka while scuba diving.
OG8o6 TIL Tumbleweed, though iconic in westerns, is not native to North America
WkXdB TIL that China cuts down 20 million 20 year old trees to produce their annual demand of 80 billion chopsticks.
e0llg TIL that Mr. Rogers went in front of the Senate to plead with them not to cut funding for PBS. Not only did he prevent the cut of funding, but he scored PBS an additional $20 million grant. He only talked for six minutes.