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TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally

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jNjeN TIL Back to the Future filming at night would get interrupted because the DeLoreans door began slowly closing on its own. It was found that cold temps at night cause the gas-filled strut in the hinge mechanism to contact. To keep the doors up, special effects would keep the strut warm between shots.
69AGQ TIL that one of the original “triggered feminist” women was actually not triggered at all
9Y8bG TIL All of those warring states near the beginning of the Old Testament were actually very small and only encompass what is now modern Israel
ANDwo TIL of the many uses of Spanish Moss by humans dating back over 3000 years.
WkyXB TIL a Fallujah Marine veteran was left with a broken tibia after being brutally beaten by an active Air Force member. The airman suspected the Marine of stolen valor and (ironically) didn't recognize a non-active military I.D. The airman was never found.