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TIL Hans Zimmer composed the Skylanders theme

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XxjX TIL that the first automobile used in a war was a steam car. The British preferred it because they could tap the boiler to brew a cup of tea.
d5nB TIL the Outer Space Treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the common heritage of mankind.
J1ae1 TIL a study showed that an average of 325 plastic particles were found in a liter of bottled water as compared to 5.5 plastic particles per liter of tap water.
grP7W TIL: Sherman Sizemore, through medical errors, experienced 16 minutes of an exploratory laparotomy, before he was given an anesthetic. Prior to this, he was only given a paralytic, forcing him to feel every cut the surgeon made in his body.
Z8w4Y TIL Most modern handcuffs in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Latin America can be opened with the same standard universal handcuff key.