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TIL around 100 firefighters are convicted of arson in the US every year

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vP5M8 TIL about the Rathbone family. A family of shipbuilders and merchants from the 1700s. Members include actor Basil (played Sherlock Holmes and villains in Robin Hood and Zorro) and COL Henry Rathbone (who was in the box seat with President Lincoln when he got shot by Booth)
rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.
BRvK TIL that the sitcom Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. was set in a marine base 1964 to 1969. The word ‘Vietnam’ was never once mentioned in it’s 5 year run.
ovQK TIL 90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
yjZa TIL that the WWI race horse Man'O'War had such a powerful genome that 37 percent of race stakes winners in 1966 were his direct descendants