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TIL That Thomas the Tank Engine fits on Hot Wheels track

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XyZR TIL At 84, Dick Van Dyke fell asleep surfing, floated out of sight of land and was rescued by Porpoises.
0lpA TIL that the word “man” was originally gender neutral and “wer” and “wif” were used to describe males and females respectively. This is where the words like “wife” and “werewolf” are derived from.
VMx5Z TIL that a comic book writer adopted two black daughters and wanted a comic book character they could relate to, so he made Miles Morales
JYdRl TIL Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature and 96% of people can tell the difference between hot and cold water by the sound it makes being poured.
PYmjO TIL On a postflight tour in China in 1982, astronauts from STS-3 showed pictures of an emerald-colored lake taken over China to a crowd in Beijing and accidentally revealed a secret atomic test site.