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TIL Mice can't fart (or burp)

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N7YgQ TIL Mechaniscburg in Pennsylvania is a town named for a settlement of mechanics who made and repaired Conestoga wagons in the early 19th century.
9Y1KM TIL a man spent 16 years typing numbers from one to one million to feature in the Guinness Book of Records
Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government
D1lNJ TIL that the only word in English that ends in -mt is "dreamt", and its extensions like daydreamt and redreamt.
805L TIL two esteemed scientists suspected time traveling culprits to be sabotaging mankind’s discovery of the Higgs boson.