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TIL that Vermont ambulances stock maple syrup for 'oral glucose' administration.

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xVZw7 TIL that My Pillow had its BBB accreditation revoked in 2017 due to deceptive advertising practices
y1ka TIL George Washington had a massive chain strung across the Hudson River in order to keep to British from sailing upriver. Each link weighed 100+ pounds.
pYYdO TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world's forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.
e01mg TIL that in 1963, the United States considered to use 520 nuclear bombs to carve out a 160 miles (260 km) long waterway through Israel's Negev desert.
OG4E4 TIL that Gene Hackman was reluctant to star in Unforgiven (1992), as his daughters were upset with the amount of violent films he had been in. Eastwood nevertheless won him over.