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TIL Humans can survive indefinitely on a diet of just potatoes and butter

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oBnVK TIL that Finland was the first nation in the world that implemented universal suffrage (in 1906) and allowed all adult citizens to run for office, regardless of sex or race, and thus was the first true democracy in the world. The following year, the first female MPs in world history were elected.
aw0pb TIL A solar plant in the Mojave Desert generates so much heat it incinerates birds in mid flight
GY8P5 TIL that among all the equipment that cavers (spelunkers) need are also containers for securely transporting urine. On longer trips, containers for securely transporting feces out of the cave are carried as well. They must not leave behind that can disturb ecosystem in caves.
awQDo TIL that Charles goodyear, the man who invented the tyre (by accident) went a little rubber crazy and obsessed, to the point he started wearing clothes made of rubber and eating off rubber dishes. He sold almost every belonging he had and replaced it with a tyre equivalent
xjvk TIL a jail in Brazil allows its inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences