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TIL the Ajax Lady in "Up in Smoke" ended up an addict living on skid row

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Meme8 TIL Wayne Gretzky was never drafted
JYQL4 TIL that in 1907, a Mexican railroad brakeman named Jesús Gracía saved the entire town of Nacozari by singlehandedly driving a damaged and burning train containing dynamite six kilometers away from the town before it finally exploded, killing him.
awN4L TIL The Anthropocene is the newest Epoch and is defined by human impact on the geologic record. The two major proposed markers for the Epoch are nuclear fallout/products and chicken bones. Chickens were domesticated 8ka but the modern broiler is easily distinguished in modern human settlements.
Qn4a TIL that a Penn State researcher introduced pigs to joy-stick controlled video games, and in weeks they would begin to “beg to play video games. They beg to be the first ones out of their pens, then they trot up the ramp to play.”
8ap44 TIL there are orange lights on taxi cabs that are only lit when the driver is in distress.