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TIL - After Edison died Nikola Tesla wrote a negative obituary in the NYT - made fun of his hygiene and work ethic

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Wk10B TIL that in 1938, 25 students and a school bus driver were killed when a school bus driver didn't check for a train at a crossing. As a result all school buses stop and open their doors to look and listen to assure no trains are coming. As a result no such tragedies have since occurred.
N74Qb TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't need that much water, but since it can prosper in such conditions it's a natural protection against weeds which cannot survive under such circumstances.
vxJD TIL: A human heart of a coke user can keep beating outside your body for 25 minutes
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.
pPY8 TIL a man was arrested for not showing his I.D. to police when comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity during a performance in L.A. They rode in the same cop car together. That man, was young George Carlin.