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TIL that ice makers in home freezers have a heating element to release the ice cubes from the mold

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4Xxo5 TIL that in the Falklands, an abandoned minefield has accidentally become a penguin sanctuary. The mines were set in the Falklands conflict and have remained there since, keeping humans away. The local Magellanic penguins are too small to set them off and have thrived in the area.
JZkB TIL that Steve McQueen staged a car crash and faked a whiplash injury so that he could film The Magnificent Seven while “recuperating”
Bggjy TIL: The smell of rotten eggs from natural gas is added to identify it, natural gas is inherently odorless.
B4Yd TIL Not only does the word “avocado” come from the ancient Aztec word for “testicle,” but the word “guacamole” quite literally translates to “testicle sauce.”
kOVle TIL about Stage Coach Mary - 63 year old, gunslinging, booze drinking, cigar smoking, fist fighting freed slave - and first black woman is U.S. history to deliver the mail.