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TIL that a woman in Florida didn’t just marry a Ferris wheel, she renewed her wedding vows to it. And fed it pizza.

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x606D TIL there is a pile of waste clothes in Chile so large it can be seen from space
wEK1 TIL after Las Vegas cabdriver vanished in 2012, a tip suggested looking in Lake Mead National Park. However, a volunteer search team wasn’t allowed into the park until it got $1 million in liability insurance. After 6 months of family fundraising, the search began and his body was found in 2 hours
WNj8 TIL that In-N-Out store managers make at least 100 grand a year, including 401k and full benefits
7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
P18Yn TIL Mainland Europe is in the middle of a years long drought. Major rivers are drying up, reservoirs in France and Italy are about 50% lower than they should be. Longest river in Italy, the Po, is 60% below its normal levels, and there is less than half of the expected snow on the Alps.