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awM9J TIL Chevy had an option on almost all of its cars in the 60s called "Liquid Chain". It would spray a traction enhancing substance on the tires to aid traction in snow.
JY0Dj Today I learned that in France it is illegal to name your pig 'Napoleon'
Rw47 TIL giant penguins taller than the average man lived in Antarctica 37 million years ago
jNOaM TIL Triscuits are salted on one side only
XVbR TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.