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TIL that one of the major problems of the Chrysler Turbine car was that it’s exhaust would melt the car behind it in traffic

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XXoE TIL: In 1979 a 16 year old girl sniped kids from her window with a .22 caliber rifle given to her for christimas just to liven up her monday.
DZjj TIL A family won Extreme Home Makeover due to having adopted 5+ kids. After the house was finished, all of the children were “returned” or sent to other foster parents.
5Vdkr TIL that Exeter Cathedral in England has a cat door that was carved in 1598; the cats were employed to keep down the population of mice, who came into the cathedral because the gears of clock were greased with animal fat
b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.
nepbo TIL a large part of the Chinese wall was made of rammed earth. The famous stone wall named the Ming Wall was finished in the 15th/16th century.