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TIL: Hexane, made from crude oil, is used to extract oil from vegetables.

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16xW7 TIL that drowning doesn't happen as it's often depicted in the movies, flailing their arms and yelling for help. Once a person starts to drown, they can’t yell or move their arms voluntarily, and won't make much of a scene.
vPgJL TIL Crispin Glover did not reprise his role as George McFly in Back to the Future II and filed a lawsuit that created new rules for use of likeness with the SAG
4GZX TIL that by 400 BC Persians had developed a type of building that produces ice in winter and stores it throughout the summer in a hot desert climate
M6lK TIL To ensure he was never without alcohol, French Painter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec hollowed out his cane (which he needed to walk due to his underdeveloped legs) and filled it with liquor.
yQg08 TIL that in 1964, Isaac Asimov speculated that by 2014, cars with "robot-brains" would drive us to our destinations without human assistance. Though he did predict the advent of the autonomous car, his belief that it would hover two feet above the ground failed to materialize.