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TIL a UK customs officer tried to get rid of his wife by waiting until she had gone abroad - and then entering her name into the “Do-Not-Fly List”. She was stranded abroad for 3 years.

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W7pKN TIL that Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language, had a brother named Paul.
Mex5a TIL that a study was done which swapped South-African and American diets for a period and it was noticed that Americans ate two to three times the amount of meat and animal fat than the South-Africans. The South-African diet is high in fiber and has reduced risk for colon cancer.
b6Woa TIL candles made out of iron and sodium chlorate produce oxygen on submarines by burning at 600°C/1,112°F. They're also used in space (on the ISS, Mir and Shuttles)
wonL8 TIL shoulders are a muscle (yes don’t judge me 💀)
wgvE TIL that in 1924, when Standard Oil was researching tetraethyl lead as a gasoline additive, 32 of 49 workers had to be hospitalized due to lead poisoning, and 5 of them died. A federal panel made entirely of industry scientists later concluded that there “no danger” from tetraethyl lead.