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TIL that the "gas pedal" (accelerator) on modern car engines actually first controls the amount of airflow, and then the ECU decides how much gas/petrol is injected.

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R8k4 TIL that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and no body knows why, this phenomenon is called Sonoluminescence
ADnM4 TIL until 2005 the only living people to appear on British stamps were the Queen and the drummer of Queen
GARaj TIL about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneering female codebreaker who decrypted mob codes during prohibition and busted up Nazi spy rings in South America, yet was robbed of her due credit by J. Edgar Hoover and died in obscurity in 1980, never revealing her immense wartime service.
e0MbL TIL that Windows 10 wallpaper isn’t CGI but used with real window pane and some smoke effect with cool lighting.
XEWOr TIL in The Goonies the director Richard Donner didn't let the child actors see One-Eyed Willy's ship so they could have a genuine reaction. When they first saw the ship some of them started to swear. So they had to use the 2nd take in the final cut.