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TIL Heating oil is diesel fuel. It is dyed red to indicate that it is not legal to burn in a diesel vehicle because the red dye indicates that there were no road taxes paid with it.

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1al1P TIL that flamingos can drink near-boiling water from geysers - they live in a high-salt environment, and this is often the freshest source of water available
5Yonr TIL 'Dwarfs' is the original plural to 'Dwarf', and 'Dwarves' was popularised by J.R.R Toklien
d86Nj TIL that Swiss German is mutually unintelligible to Standard German. Speakers of each language cannot necessarily understand each other.
vPYlB TIL that Our lady of Suyapa(La Morenita)was named the captain general of the Honduran armed forces following the “Football War” between Honduras and El Salvador.
oBWEY TIL ancient Roman Philosopher Seneca chose to adopt a vegetarian diet "to challenge the decadence of his time". Seneca eventually abandoned vegetarianism, because he did not want to be associated with a particular political faction that had adopted it's practice.