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TIL that each tire on your car is a single giant molecule

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5YGJQ TIL that museum staffs broke Tutankhamun's beard by recklessly handling the artifact, which then lead them to attempt fixing it using super glue
gM9O4 TIL that during the American Civil War, Scott County of Tennessee broke away from the rest of the state to join the Union and technically did not rejoin the state until 1986.
XEjb8 TIL in order not to pay gas guzzler taxes for its US-made fleet, Ford made the Crown Victoria in Canada, so that it would count towards the imported fleet, where its low MPG rating was balanced out by the fuel-efficient Festiva.
DJMe TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.
DaBj TIL that Dr. Naum Ciomu lost his temper while performing surgery and sliced off his patients penis with a scalpel. He then chopped up the amputated penis before storming out of the operating room.