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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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GYwX1 TIL the Property Brothers have a music career, but they go by the Scott Brothers.
9GOB TIL the Japanese military ran human experiments in China, including organ removal, blood loss, being burnt alive, forced pregnancy followed by vivisection, all without anesthesia. The US gave immunity to those involved in exchange for the data. Many doctors had successful postwar careers. [NSFW]
ReA6 TIL of a drunk driver convicted of manslaughter who was sentenced to wear his victim’s name and spend her birthday and holidays in prison
64Yw TIL, speedlimits are somewhat pointless. When limits were changed by as much a 20mph, the rate vehicles traveled didn’t change. What did was the number of citations given.
vkR4 TIL: Polish Resistance hero Witold Pilecki got himself arrested in 1942 so he could report to the West about the truth of what was happening in Auschwitz. He later organized the Warsaw Uprising. The post-war Communist government suppressed all information about him until 1989.