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TIL Clementines can be used as candles.

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PYbNZ TIL babies don't have object permanence, meaning the concept of something existing without them perceiving it is foreign to them. Anything they can't see, doesn't exist.
OoKJe TIL NASA renamed sizes or early condom-based toilets from S, M, and L into "large, gigantic and humongous" because male astronauts' ego would make them grab L, regardless of the real size.
b69mj TIL South Korean Lee Seung Seop, 28, collapsed of fatigue and perished after playing the video game StarCraft online for almost 50 consecutive hours in an internet cafe.
e00Qg TIL that the Catholic Church never taught against evolution or the big bang. In fact, the first to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe (Georges Lemaître) and founder of the science of genetics (Gregor Mendel) which explains the mechanism behind evolution were both Catholic priests.
D1jNP TIL of the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter, a all-terrain vehicle created from a stainless steel milk tanker, has covered 33,000 miles on land, has passed through 28 countries, transits the open ocean and is the first car to transit the Panama Canal.