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TIL car manufacturers sell spicy tape. It's a wiring tape that's coated with capsaicin to deter rodents from chewing on wires

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KOjK9 TIL there was once a 65 foot ski slope inside New York's Grand Central Station.
PYoLL TIL Issac Newton was a firm believer in alchemy and studied for years to find a method to create the substance known as the Philosophers Stone, which could apparently turn base metals into gold.
dDVPj TIL In 1999 Hurricane Lenny, or Wrong-Way-Lenny, is the only recorded hurricane to have traveled backwards
moBR TIL the first black-white interracial kiss on American television was on an episode of Star Trek. However, the producers were worried about the show being banned in the South because of it, and tried to shoot alternate versions of the shot. The actors intentionally flubbed those shots.
gMX1A TIL on Christmas, 1992, George H. W. Bush pardoned 6 Reagan administration officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal