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TIL USPS trucks get 10 Miles to the gallon and are over 25 years old

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mbOx TIL that Lake Kivu is one of three lakes that undergoes limnic eruptions. These sudden releases of carbon dioxide kill every human and animal around the lake. It is estimated that the lake erupts about once every thousand years. Currently, about two million people live on the shores of Lake Kivu.
VDaG TIL: “Shrek” means ‘fright’ in Yiddish
GQgG TIL that Nickelodeon’s green slime earned its nickname “GAK” after the street name for heroine due to the crew of “Double Dare!”’s recreational drug usage.
0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.
yV7Ov TIL Giorgio Moroder (electronic music pioneer) once released an album with Michael Holm titled Spinach, whose cover art featured a nude woman covered in the titular vegetable.