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p8Zo8 TIL of Soda locomotive, a fireless locomotive that ran on sodium hydroxide. When steam came in contact with the sodium hydroxide, it would generate enough heat to actually run the boiler and generate more steam and propel the locomotive forward.
p84bZ TIL that the Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis to promote the Third Reich at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
ANbZg TIL of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, who was also an early troubadour and kept a portrait of his mistress on his shield. The affair was the cause of his second excommunication.
1exW TIL the only reliable test for rabies requires an examination of an animal’s brain (post-mortem)
OoXkY TIL that ancient Greek & Roman statues were painted bright colors, not left as white marble.