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TIL steam is an invisible gas. If you can see it, it’s not steam, it is condensation.

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Bgojy TIL that Margaret Atwood based The Handmaid’s Tale entirely on real historical events with every element of oppression in the book having already happened somewhere
78BbL TIL California’s Salton Sea was accidentally created in 1905 when a canal breach flooded a desert sink 86m below sea level.
DQwpp TIL low-digit license plates are highly collectable in the state of Delaware and are often sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
16gQW TIL The Kremlin is home to the Tsar Cannon, which was never fired, and the Tsar Bell, which has never been rung.
GAaxE TIL that one of the first recorded instances of death by erotic asphyxiation was done by Czech violinist Frantisek Kotzwara