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TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.

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wLoOW TIL: In chess boxing, after 6 rounds of chess & 5 rounds of boxing (switching every 3 min), a player can win by knockout, technical knockout, or checkmate.
QJN56 TIL that the Chernobyl Power Plant continued operating and producing electricity until 2000, 14 years after the Chernobyl disaster.
KGGJ TIL there is a community in Canada that has achieved 97% of their heating through solar power.
7ApZ TIL in Philadelphia there are such things as “courtesy cards” which are often given to the friends or family of a police officer and they allow the user to get out of minor offenses such as speeding or running a stop sign if given to a police officer while they’re writing the ticket.
8wmZ TIL in 1953, the City of Niagara Falls bought a plot of land called “Love Canal” for $1 from a chemical company that had used the area as a dump. Despite warnings from the company, a school was built on the land. From 1974–1978, 56% of children in the area were born with birth defects.