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TIL Public poll names town's new gritters in UK

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59n TIL Iceland has had a complete revolution within the past year, removing their government and bankers and bringing them to justice.
aJdL TIL there are about 200,000 Africans in the city of Guangzhou, China, their number increasing by 30-40% every year, the area they live in is now called “Chocolate City” by locals
8aByV TIL Rust Doesn't cause Tetanus. Tetanus, or lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani, an extremely hardy rod-shaped bacterium found in animal digestive tracts and soil worldwide. Humans can be exposed to Clostridium tetani in a variety of non-rusty ways, such as animal bites.
16n67 TIL That Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers. As I am currently rewatching band of Brothers after nearly a decade, I stumbled across a scene that had me shivering. At the end of episode 5, Jimmy Fallon appears as a courier that delivers material right before Easy Company enters Bastogne.
AO57 TIL that the past two governors of Illinois, and four past governors in four decades, have been sentenced to prison for corruption