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TIL NASCAR is Rooted in Prohibition Bootlegging

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QNDJa TIL The Thonet No. 14 chair was the first mass-produced piece of furniture. The ease of production came from the wood being curved an iron mold. Over 50 million of these chairs have been sold since the invention in 1859.
DDxe TIL: Real life castaway drifted into the Pacific Ocean for 13 months surviving off rainwater, fish, and sea turtles. Several large ships saw him but refused to help him. He eventually drifted to land.
8aae8 TIL Hisashi Ouchi a technician working at Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion was exposed to beyond fatal amounts of radiation, in a way that none of his chromosomes could be identified after the accident. Still, doctors managed to keep him alive for 83 days against his wishes.
ZpgNR TIL that the Roman emperor Vespasian did not in fact issue a tax on urinating in public latrines but instead on the distribution of urine collected from Rome's public urinals
JXJ1 TIL that until 11,000 years ago milk was toxic to humans, that the only way we could consume it was lowering the lactose levels by turning it into cheese, that today only one third of adults are lactose tolerant, and that the closer you get to the equator the lower the tolerance level is.