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TIL On the dashboard of your car, where you can see the amount of petrol you have, there is a small arrow next to the icon showing where your fuel cap is

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0d4n5 TIL only 6,800 Americans were killed in action over the course of the entire 8 years of the Revolutionary War
mw5o TIL London is riddled with dozens of ‘Plague Pits’ of the victims of the Bubonic Plague. Some pits are so thick with bodies it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains during construction of the Tube
ADgAg TIL there's strong evidence that chewing gum improves working memory, episodic memory and speed of perception. Why this is the case is not understood.
R7X98 TIL that quahogs (a common clam) are among the longest-lived marine organisms in the world and can live up to 200 years old. They don't reproduce until around 6 years old, and don't reach commercially harvestable size until about 20 years old.
JYwdQ TIL an almost perfectly preserved dinosaur was found in a Canadian oil sands mine in 2011. The 2,500 pound fossil was unveiled to the public in 2017 and is currently on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.