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TIL rainbows never form during midday (because the sun must be at a low angle)

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x0Q0 TIL Chloroform isn’t good for kidnapping - it takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious
LVQP TIL that Neil Armstrong was a BAMF. During Apollo 11’s lunar module descent, the computer began to malfunction, so Armstrong turned it off and landed it himself…with 20 seconds of fuel remaining.
1mpW TIL of a way to go on strike without leaving work. In “work-to-rule”, employees do the minimum possible required of them, and precisely follow all safety and other regulations. Examples: Refusing overtime, nurses not answering phones, police not issuing citations, taking every legally entitled break
NXyR6 TIL Abraham Lincoln was the only president who was also a licensed bartender.
EQDx TIL there is a anti-cancer drug (Abt199) that kills cancer so well, the massive amount of breakdown products of dying cancer cells can kill the patient via tumour lysis syndrome