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TIL canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide

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v19vB TIL The Mad Hatterpillar wears its old heads as hats.
ePJ4 TIL, on its page for ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ IMDb enables users to rate the movie out of 11 stars (e.g. 8.0/11) instead of the standard scale of one to ten.
b6m4p TIL there’s a dinosaur named Qantassaurus, named in honour of the Australian airline Qantas. This was after Qantas shipped the Great Russian Dinosaurs Exhibit, the largest ever travelling dinosaur exhibit, across the world in the 1990s.
Qyna TIL Richard Simmons’ career in promoting fitness and healthy living has helped humanity to lose approximately 12,000,000 pounds.
jvPN TIL that harvesting cork from the cork tree does not kill it, and regrows fully in 9 years.