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TIL the smoke you see when blowing out a candle isn't smoke at all, but paraffin wax vapour

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GYrpN TIL that Israel drops "warning bombs" on Gaza prior to dropping actual bombs.
ODeg TIL Major banks like UBS, HSBC, and Barclays have been submitting phony numbers, often in concert with each other for years. Together they manipulated world markets, specifically the Libor rate, which controls interest rates worldwide, causing trillions in damage. No banker will spend a day in jail.
Rek9 TIL Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.
V6wB TIL that during a UK National Election, British media coverage is ‘restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather’
788p TIL Sean Connery once stated “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman–although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. ”