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TIL Tonight show Impersonator Rich Little is still alive and performing.

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OolOX TIL In the US from 2014-2018, an average of 19,700 patients per year went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills. There’s an annual average of 8,900 home fires involving grills, hibachis or barbecues.
W64A TIL - On 9/22/1979 there was an unidentified nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean, and it is known as the Vela Incident
x6M1w TIL in 1900, Los Angeles, the city now known for its car culture, had a 14 km wooden bike superhighway connecting it with Pasadena, Daily ridership was around 1,500. It was dismantled a decade later and the land was used for the Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the oldest expressways in the country.
wLG4o TIL that the driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.
kJ7m7 TIL about the first recorded divorce in US history, in which the husband later admitted to having two wives and refused to return to his first wife with whom he had left his two children.