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TIL that an entire town exists in Pennsylvania due to one of the only traffic lights on the Interstate system

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R841 TIL that a man robbing a Sprint store painted his face gold as a disguise. Afterwards he was having trouble breathing and died wheezing shortly after the robbery took place. And the witnesses were still able to identify him making his “disguise” useless.
78ANr TIL potatoes yield 17.8 million calories per acre, so you could feed a family of four on less than 1/4 acre
R7L5Q TIL Scientists think Neptune has an ocean of slushy ice that's almost as hot as the sun. [Scientific link provided, but images of how I actually learned in the comments]
Z8jpa TIL Mafia leader John Gotti and the Gambino crime family used an area in New York City called The Hole as a mass grave for mafia targets.
8eVPX TIL the flesh eating parasite screwworms will lay their eggs in wounds as small as a tick bite