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TIL: The smell of rotting potatoes can kill you
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TIL: In 1979, Kane Kramer not only drew (quite accuratly) what would become the iPod, he accurately predicted digital music downloads before the internet as we know it existed.
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TIL 103 cars were destroyed while filming The Blues Brothers. At time of release, this was a world record, not beaten until 104 cars were wrecked in filming Blues Brothers 2000.
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TIL That aircraft have swept back wings to delay supersonic airflow which helps prevent wave drag. But they are not ideal for slow air speeds.
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TIL toilet paper only became "splinter-free" in the 1930s.
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TIL that an early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a passage written by Thomas Jefferson condemning slavery, but was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia.