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TIL that carbon fiber underwear can absorb and filter out the unpleasant odor of a fart

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LQZ6Q TIL that a computer was too loud to use. The TRS-80 Model II's fan and disk drives are "so noisy that users reported physical discomfort and reluctance to use the computer".
e0X7g TIL that despite increases in computer power, each Shrek film has taken about twice as many hours to render as the one before it. Dreamworks calls this "Shrek's Law".
QJLoL TIL Alexander Shulgin, the man who rediscovered MDMA and "the godfather of psychedelics", had a license from the DEA to produce any schedule 1 substance. He managed to discover over 200 psychoactive compounds before the license was revoked.
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
4NdR TIL That it rains diamonds on gaseous planets like Neptune and Uranus. They contain methane that at high pressures and temperatures, turn into diamonds which then fall to the center of the planet.