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7rDyx TIL that the original name for Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was “Herpes Trout”
OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.
QJpjd TIL that the founder of Old Bay seafood seasoning founded his own company after being fired by McCormick after two days on the job after they found out he was Jewish
0WXj TIL that as impressive as the Lockheed SR71 was, it had a secret older brother (the A-12) which was even faster, lighter, and had a higher service ceiling.
jNKwa TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.