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TIL that Malibu is hit by a large wildfire approximately every 2.5 years.

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6EJeZ TIL that gladiators in Ancient Rome formed trade unions called "collegia" that would often pay for the funerals of fallen gladiators and take care of their families
OoYv7 TIL that the location of the Teletubbies set was so secret that visitors had to be blindfolded.
yQZ8w TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.
6Eg68 TIL If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe. The rope is 24,901.55 miles long. If you now want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover one foot off the ground at all points on earth. It only takes just 6.28 feet more of rope.
GAxrE TIL There are ‘visa temple’ in India where Hindu worshippers visit to pray for successful path to the USA