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TIL that pit vipers are called pit vipers because they have a stereoscopic, infrared-sensing “pit organ” in their head.

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9wpa7 TIL in 2014 General Motors put out cars with faulty ignition switches, which prevented airbags from being deployed, leading to the deaths of 124 people.
e0dmn TIL that while aerospikes could offer the greatest rocket engine performance, no company has yet to produce a commercial engine (despite many trying) because they are so complicated.
X0JWk TIL about Jerry Thomas, considered "the father of American mixology." In 1862, Thomas collected and codified the oral tradition of recipes from the early days of cocktails, including the first written recipes for the Fizz, Flip, Sour, Punch, and Tom Collins.
ADppB TIL due to a typo the wrong type of kitty litter was used during a nuclear materials containment. This caused an explosion and more than $2B in cleanup.
0wrVM TIL about Price's Law. In any productive population, the square root of the population generates 50% of the output. (E.g out of 10,000 farmers only 100 produce 50% of the food).