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TIL that the founder of Chevrolet was swiss
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TIL that Liechtenstein has virtually no debt with GDP to debt ratio being 0.5%.
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TIL That Chinese Checkers is neither a variation on checkers nor did it originate from Asia.
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TIL that male porcupines pee on female porcupines in order to determine if the female is ready
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TIL that "Superpredators" was a term coined by social scientists in the 90s to describe a coming wave of youth violence in America that led to harsher punishments for children especially those who were African American. However, the theory was proven to be flat out wrong.
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TIL about 2,4-DNP, a chemical that was used, among other things, to make black dye. 3 workers died during the 1890s after accidentally ingesting it. It dissipates energy from food in the body as heat, making people rapidly lose body fat and die from an excessive rise in body temperature.