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TIL the New Jersey Forest Fire Service can summon any person aged 18 to 50 in their jurisdiction to help fight a wildfire or for use of their property in assisting, and it is a crime to refuse.

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wLXb6 TIL that there exists a single fungal colony in northern Michigan that stretches across 37 acres, weighs in at 21,000 lbs., and is around 1,500 years old
P11Ag TIL Ancient Chinese doctor and surgeon Hua Tuo was executed by King Cao Cao when he suggested performing a surgery by cutting into his royal skull
M7ymW TIL in November 1970 an airplane carrying the Marshall University football team (plus coaches and a few other people) crashed into a mountaintop outside the Huntington WV airport, killing all 75 people on board. It is considered the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history.
dP9K TIL that the license plate number of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car, in which he was assassinated, was A III118. The official end of WWI was Armistice Day, 11/11/18
v154x TIL Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching pressure