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TIL Diesel engines produce very little carbon monoxide and will not kill a person trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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yQL98 TIL of the maple syrup urine disease, which is named for the presence of sweet-smelling urine, similar to maple syrup, when the person goes into metabolic crisis
wNZo TIL that the first aerial refueling occurred when Wesley May climbed from a Lincoln Standard to a Curtiss Jenny with a 5 gallon can strapped to his back in 1921.
W7gQ9 TIL President Calvin Coolidge had a pet racoon named Rebecca who was originally gifted to him to eat for Thanksgiving dinner
pRQO TIL there is a programming language called ArnoldC based entirely around Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes
b6Y00 TIL the “chain fountain” effect where a chain of beads tumbling out of a jar rises up is also called the “Mould effect” after Steve Mould’s 2013 YouTube video brought widespread public attention to the phenomenon, and Cambridge academics published a paper on it .