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TIL that tonnage of air-conditioning is the amount of heat it removes in an hour. 1 Ton AC can remove the heat enough to melt 1 ton Ice in 1 hour.

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QJNX9 Physicians and veterinarians agree: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and is sick like a duck, it's best for it to be treated by someone trained to treat a duck. Faced with such a scenario, physicians would be armed only with what they know about human biology. And that doesn't go very far, says Rika Maeshiro, the director of Public Health and Prevention Projects for the Association of American Medical Colleges.
EVOo TIL that Hershey’s chocolate is flavored with sour-tasting butyric acid, which also gives vomit its aroma. This is why people unaccustomed to American chocolate sometimes compare it to vomit.
aW40 TIL that Jimmy Carter signed the bill that made homebrewing legal in 1978. (It took effect in 1979)
5Vm7n TIL: Worker ants cannot mate; however, because of the haplodiploid sex-determination system, workers can lay unfertilised eggs that become fully fertile, haploid males.
Mpnb TIL that the time traveling machine in Back to the Future was originally supposed to be a refrigerator, but director Robert Zemeckis feared that children would climb into their home fridges and suffocate themselves so they went with the DeLorean instead.