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TIL fires from Christmas lights were a significantly higher risk before LEDs. Bulbs could get hot to the touch after only a few minutes, and when wrapped around a dry tree could ignite.

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TIL fires from Christmas lights were a significantly higher risk before LEDs. Bulbs could get hot to the touch after only a few minutes, and when wrapped around a dry tree could ignite.

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TIL during WW2, UK built decoy sites to divert bombers from the high priority industrial target sites. At the “Special Fire’ sites – nicknamed Starfish – dedicated crews used controlled fires and lighting effects to simulate burning targets and industrial activity.

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TIL Pep was a prison dog sent to Eastern State Pen in Philadelphia in 1924 to help with moral and keep rodents away. He was inducted into the prison with his own inmate number and was paw-printed. He was “accused of murdering a cat.” The accusation was just as a joke.

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TIL that scientists found large gold nuggets may form during earthquakes, when stressed quartz produces electric charges that pull gold from underground fluids and crystallize it.

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