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TIL When charging car battery, connecting positive to negative and negative to positive could result in damage to the alternator or even an explosion.

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BrJYb TIL McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli
eQ8g TIL the reason why Bambi (1941) looks so stylistically different than Disney’s other works is because entry-level employee Tyrus Wong, an immigrant artist from China, painted sketches of his vision without permission from supervisors. Walt Disney saw his work and promoted him as to lead BG artist.
OoE4a TIL there was a short lived British remake of the sitcom That 70s Show called Days Like These. Other than some name changes it was a word for word remake of the original.
QJlg9 TIL Guion S. Bluford was a decorated Air Force pilot in Vietnam before joining NASA in the late 1970s.In 1983,he became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.Before he retired he had logged 688 hours in space.
pVxA TIL of the “rat flood”, a plague that strikes northeastern India every 48 years, in which a horde of rats emerges from the jungle and devours all its path.