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

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wL1E6 TIL Iceland is one of the few countries that is mosquito-free despite having 1600 species of dryland animals. However, in 1980 a professor of the University of Iceland found a mosquito on a plane and it is now kept in a jar at the Icelandic Institute of National History.
xggw TIL That Finland’s current president was in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. He survived by climbing up an utility pole with his son.
E4Np TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.
Gg4G TIL that in 1980 a neighbor of John Gotti had the misfortune to kill Gotti’s 12 year old son in a car accident. Before he could move out of the area, he was abducted by several men, then apparently killed and dissolved in acid.
GYDPE TIL: Tennessee tried to force drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their sales of illegal substances