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TIL Rust doesn't cause tetanus and is relatively harmless in small quantities

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1L18 TIL that notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was not executed via capital punishment, but rather beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate.
ANG7d TIL Bill Nye, the Science Guy, holds a patent for improved point shoes to better support dancers’ feet
9wYb6 TIL Smoke following people around a fire is due to hot air rising from the fire and drawing cold air towards it. A person would block cold air from flowing in that particular location, causing the hot air, along with the smoke, to seemingly follow the person.
MeOZV TIL that the secret police in Communist Romania subjected the leaders of a 1977 coal miners’ strike to 5-minute chest X-rays to ensure that they developed cancer
rK9d TIL that in zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue