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TIL Diesel cars can run on Jet Fuel (Kerosene)

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xVer5 TIL John Travolta adapted L. Ron Hubbard's novel "Battlefield Earth" into a film directed by George Lucas' protégé. Travolta described it as "like Star Wars, only better!", however the film was a commercial and critical failure and grossed less than half its budget.
6EgOJ TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
kJxbB TIL that the US senate has only been directly elected since 1913.
byD0 TIL the use of GPS substantially diminishes the ability of people to make mental maps and process spatial data and memories.
x6amb TIL of the Normandy Massacres, a series of killings committed against Canadian soldiers by Hitler Youth SS troops. Around 1-in-7 of Canadian deaths during the Battle of Normandy were executions.