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TIL that rust can easily be removed from chrome with aluminum foil and water and works because of metal hardness levels.

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Z8VmD TIL that The Rock's acting debut was as the Pendari Champion; an alien wrestler in Star Trek: Voyager.
1aoJV TIL Modern cars are designed to be essentially air-tight. This has been causing a lot of deaths in the past decade where children have suffocated after being in cars for hours. Never sleep in your car with the windows rolled up - the dash vents are insufficient at providing adequate oxygen exchange.
pXbN TIL The Miami zoo put 30 flamingos in the bathroom during hurricane Andrew in 1992 to ride out the storm. An image of them huddled inside became one of the most iconic from that hurricane.
x68k7 TIL the plane which dropped the atomic bomb in WW2, the B-29 Superfortress, was more expensive to develop ($3 billion) than the Manhattan Project ($1.9 billion).
5j5n TIL that the captain of a United flight had a heart attack mid-flight, and so an off-duty air force captain, Mike Gongol, had to help land the plane, saving 160 lives. He knew he had to help when he heard the PA announcement “are there any non-revenue pilots on board, please ring your call button.”