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TIL - Natural gas is odorless, gas companies are required by federal law to add a chemical called mercaptan to give it a distinctive rotten egg or sulfur smell to help detect leaks

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VMlgQ TIL That a Chinese author based some of the murders in his books on ones he’s committed years earlier. Liu Yongbiao was convicted last year of killing four people in 1994. He’d also boasted of planning a book about a murderous author that bested capture and escaped authorities.
oRAaE TIL simple banana duct-taped to a wall, titled “Comedian,” sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction, purchased by cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun. Created by Maurizio Cattelan, the piece highlights the absurdity of the art market and has become a cultural phenomenon.
d8v79 TIL Abraham Maslow never created a pyramid to represent his idea of hierarchy of needs
xvRD TIL that there is a species of frog that will intentionally break its bones to make ‘claws’ as a form of self-defense
MgYV TIL that an elderly Eskimo in the 1950s, in order to escape government settlement made a knife out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled, tied it to other dogs and rode off.