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TIL There is not just a price difference, but also a chemical difference between gasoline in the summer and gasoline in the winter.

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yVYPe TIL of the play Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play in which survivors in a post apocalyptic world reenact episodes of the Simpsons
Me5ba TIL that the average white, fluffy cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds (~500,000kg)
6EnkW TIL about the Bolton Strid. Running through Bolton Abby in Yorkshire, England is a 6-foot wide, seemingly calm stretch of water that has claimed the lives of anyone who ever entered it.
aZ5J TIL of the NYC “Pizza Principle” which is a historically accurate “economic law” reported by The New York Times where the price of a slice of pizza has matched the price of a subway ride. It has been successfully used to predict the increase of subway fare on multiple ocassions.
0wrY1 Today I learned Howard Hughes loved banana nut ice cream so much his aides convinced Baskin-Robbins to produce a 350 gallon special order of the discontinued product. A few days later he grew tired of it and decided he only wanted French Vanilla so his hotel gave away the ice cream to customers.