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TIL Fabio Lanzoni once killed a goose with his face while riding a roller coaster

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N7v9J Today I learned that testing to qualify an n95 is done by putting a persons head in a hood and then spraying something sweet or bitter into the hood and using the senses of smell and taste to verify a proper seal.
Wk8xN TIL in 1992, Barqs rootbeer ran a promotion giving away USSR memorabilia with proof of purchase as a Communism is going out of business sale, resulting in a 30% increase in sales.
D4jr TIL The potato has been studied by NASA as an important food source for long space voyages, and that the amount of potato plants (grown on board a space ship) needed to sustain one astronaut is also the amount of potato plant required to process the air breathed by one astronaut.
k5Ed TIL that prior to Chris Farley’s death, there were plans to make a Matt Foley movie (SNL motivational speaker who “lived in a van down by the river”) with David Spade in a supporting role
4Bng TIL the oldest known name for the Island of Great Britain is Albion