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TIL almost 75 percent of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector can be converted to natural refrigerants, such as ammonia

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loDda TIL in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, orphanages would fill trains up with orphans. These trains would stop to have prospective parents evaluate the children for adoption.
6JQJ TIL Pythagoras invented a practical joke cup that would spill wine all over a person if they filled their cup too much.
WwEN TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.
b6J7 TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
W4Lo TIL that injecting yourself intravenously with papayas would cause your Immunoglobulins to fragment, resulting in the cease of function of the adaptive immune system.