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TIL At top speed the Bugatti Veyron will empty its 26 gallon tank in 12 minutes

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DeKY TIL in 1785 Marquis de Sade wrote a book on a twelve-meter long roll of paper while imprisoned in France. The book was assumed to be lost in a raid and wasn’t published until 1904. The book, 120 Days of Sodom, makes 50 Shades of Grey look like a nursery rhyme.
xvNb TIL there is a hallucinogen originating from Africa called Ibogaine that is highly successful in treating heroin addiction by minimising the effects of withdrawal but it is illegal in most of the western world.
kJJd5 TIL: The Persians once used an army of cats to the defeat the Egyptian Army
6m4Z TIL The first president of Zimbabwe was President Banana who passed his first law making it illegal to make jokes about his name.
E1Bno TIL about the Peak-End Rule – a cognitive bias whereby we tend to judge and remember an experience/event on the basis of how we felt at its 'peaks' (intense positive or negative moments) and at its 'end' (the final moments) rather than the sum total of all the moments of the experience/event.