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TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”

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6ELeX TIL, that a DIN A3 paper is 420mm wide.
GYxjQ TIL that weddings that cost more than $20,000 were found to be correlated with a higher rate of divorce than less expensive weddings.
4ll5 TIL that in 1910, Congress nearly passed “the American Hippo Bill”, which would have released hippos in Louisiana bayous in order to eat invasive plants while solving America’s meat shortage. Newspapers of the time praised hippo meat as “lake cow bacon”.
Y6rr TIL humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments.
PYeAJ TIL John DeLorean was arrested by the FBI for conspiring to smuggle $24M worth of cocaine into the US while the DeLorean Motor Co was failing to raise money to survive. Claiming he was coerced into participation in the deal by FBI agents who approached him as legitimate investors, he was acquitted