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TIL: Jacques Cousteau's Calypso had a 1000 litre stainless steel wine tank.

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OoVKe TIL Dawn dish soap is made from petroleum which makes it better at cleaning oil and grease, especially from animals affected by oil spills.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.
w6gY TIL that the reason it is safe from electrocution inside a car during a thunderstorm is due to an effect called Faraday’s Cage - when Electricity strikes an metal object, the electricity only travels around the outside meaning the interior is unaffected entirely.
N7vkM TIL about the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable microcomputer. Released in 1981, it weighed nearly 25 pounds, had to be plugged into the wall and cost $1,795 (or roughly $5,000 in today's dollars).
64NJ TIL Women are statistically much less likely to watch the feminist encouraged “Female Friendly” porn, and are instead more inclined to watch mainstream hardcore porn or nothing at all. [NSFW]