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TIL Bubble lights used for Christmas decorations contain methylene chloride, a carconigenic solvent.

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j61Gn TIL about "Slack Fill" lawsuits, suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of the each container's capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact lawyers call San Francisco the "Food Court".
69MJX TIL Earths Geographical North Pole is actually earths Southern Magnetic Pole.
awVr0 TIL Sloths can die of exhaustion when eating too much because they will use up all their energy digesting food in their stomach, before any of the food can provide them with more energy
OGEb7 TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.
MePaA TIL Vampires(Jiangshi) in chinese lore are thought to be unable to move their limbs, so they move around by hopping, this being one of their trademarks. They are also know as "hopping zombies"