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TIL Before natural gas distribution became common, houses had pipelines for coal-derived "town gas" to use for heating and cooking.

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OGk86 TIL that it's a common misconception that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap. In reality, he died from a toxic level of Seconal, a barbituary that he was using a bottle cap to ingest.
kOlWg TIL: With over 11 million words, Devta is the world's longest novel. It was serialised monthly in a Pakistani suspense magazine for 33 years.
grMR4 TIL that Frans de Waal won an Ig Noble Prize for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually by seeing photographs of their anogenital regions
V4E8 TIL of Justo Gallego Martínez, a 90 year old former monk who is building an unauthorized cathedral in spain since 1961. He works mostly alone for ten hours a day, six days a week.
4Xj4J Today I learned (by being destroyed by allergies) that your nose has an internal cycle, which is why one nostril can be harder to blow than the other.