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TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research

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X0L88 TIL that in 1976, US Coast Guard divers suffered second-degree burns after handling sediment samples from a bayou in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
loblK TIL that the active ingredient of Febreze is derived from corn.
68lX TIL vehicle clocks gain time by overcompensating for start-up time power failures on ignition, resulting in cumulatively inaccurate time keeping.
Y7yGr TIL that, on being rejected by the only woman he ever proposed to, Lord William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness, took a vow of celibacy, allowing his noble titles to go extinct upon his death in 1995.
X0gnQ TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee