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TIL Southern California Edison is only now starting to replace bare power lines with insulated power lines in high wildfire risk areas.

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R7mwa TIL Johnny Weismuller played Tarzan in 12 movies, after which he starred in 13 Jungle Jim movies, widely regarded as Tarzan ripoffs.
6E7R7 TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Overworked Fans Started A Charitable Foundation Just So Struggling Anime Artists Could Survive In Tokyo.
9YWBQ TIL that magician Harry Houdini took a year off from his performance career during WWI to promote the war effort including teaching soldiers how to get out of handcuffs.
XngQ TIL the DJ “scratch” was accidentally created when Grand Wizard held a spinning record in place so he could hear his mom, who was yelling at him.
PYeAJ TIL John DeLorean was arrested by the FBI for conspiring to smuggle $24M worth of cocaine into the US while the DeLorean Motor Co was failing to raise money to survive. Claiming he was coerced into participation in the deal by FBI agents who approached him as legitimate investors, he was acquitted