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TIL Çeşm-i Bülbül is a Turkish glass blowing technique named after a nightingale’s eye due to comparisons made to the bird's occular organ patterns with the glass blowing technique

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Bggjy TIL: The smell of rotten eggs from natural gas is added to identify it, natural gas is inherently odorless.
P1Lpw TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan.
OGMJR TIL of the Love Canal Chemical Disaster where they built a school on a chemical dump site and eventually 950 residents were evacuated in Niagara Falls, New York
6Jn8 TIL a house in Britain was vandalized and graffitied by outraged neighbors who turned out to be mistaken: the owner was a pediatrician, not a pedophile
a80Jo TIL roadrunners are actually much slower than coyotes. A roadrunner sprints at about 20 mph (or 32 km/h), whereas a coyote's top speed can reach over 40 mph (or 64 km/h).