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TIL that all of the rubber in a car tyre is one single molecule.

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Lx80 TIL that Mormon scripture teaches you to distinguish between angels and the devil by offering to shake hands (you won’t feel anything if it’s the devil).
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nbY9 TIL that ‘The Fuller Cut’ barbershop in Michigan, offers $2 off the price of a haircut for children, if they read to the barber while receiving the haircut, hoping to increase the literacy rate in the city, especially among the poorer families.
J1Xak TIL that until 1970, Royal Navy sailors were given daily rum rations - a tradition dating back to the 17th century to make life at sea bearable. On the final day before it was abolished, many unhappy sailors held mock funeral processions, drank their final rations and threw the rest overboard.
loj65 TIL: In the 1880s, the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish separatists living in the US, commissioned John Holland to build a submarine to attack British ships. Due to a legal dispute, they refused to pay for the submarine, stole it, couldn't pilot it, and Holland refused to teach them.