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TIL that sitting inside of a snowed-in car with the engine running can be deadly if the tailpipe is clogged with snow.

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0XbA TIL Michael Jackson invented and patented a shoe that allows the wearer to pull off the anti-gravity lean illusion used in his video for “Smooth Criminal” and during live performances.
4BPJ TIL the creators of Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gravity Falls all started out working together on the The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
e78b TIL the deadliest snow storm in recorded history occurred in Iran in 1972. The week-long weather system buried areas in as much as 26ft of snow, killing over 4,000 people, including the entire populations of 3 villages.
nYlW TIL that Lynx cats became extinct in Britain approximately 1,300 years ago and there is now serious plans to re-introduce them to the wilds.
eV6g TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks