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TIL Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work

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RZy4 TIL A single misplaced comma created a giant legal loophole in the 1972 U.S Tariff Act, costing the government $1,000,000.
wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.
gME7D TIL cats are able to fit into any space that they can fit their head due to the fact that they do not have a rigid collar bone, rather a free floating collar bone that allows them to fit into tight spaces.
oBQ4K TIL: 32% of U.S. households don't have a dishwasher, Among households that do, 20% never use it. That means that 46% of US households never use a dishwasher,
omRL TIL that Teflon (PTFE) is the only substance that a gecko cannot climb.