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TIL Velociraptors were only about 2 feet tall

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vPxB7 TIL that the Mazda 787B, which won the 1991 24h of Le Mans, was so loud that when driver Volker Weidler lost an earplug while driving, it gave him permanent hearing loss and lifelong balance disorders preventing him from participating in motorsports.
Jv5m TIL that orange juice loses all of it’s flavor during the de-oxyginaztion process, what allows the juice to keep in vats for up to a year. Juice company’s hire the manufactures of such perfumes as CK and Dior to make “flavor packs” to make the flavorless liquid taste like juice again.
6g0Q TIL Catullus, a famous Roman poet, wrote a poem so vulgar that it wasn’t fully translated until the late 20th century.
wo0AY TIL about post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS), also known as ‘piss shivers,’ the shivering some people feel during and after urinating. It happens equally to men and women. The current theory is that it is caused by the autonomic nervous system getting its signals crossed.
YEbG TIL that if a similar show launched today that went as far back as That 70s Show did when it first aired, it’d be about a group of high schoolers in 1994.