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TIL that the rectangular 9 volt battery, king of toy batteries, is actually made of 6 small cylindrical 1.5 volt batteries.

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7raDp TIL of the Caterpillar Club, whose members consist solely of people who’ve escaped out of a failing plane and lived. The club was founded by an army test pilot who bailed out of a plane in 1922 and decided that anyone else who’s ever survived this ordeal would become an automatic member.
Vxbm TIL - Empty skies after 9/11 caused a measured change in temps due to lack of jet contrails in the sky
ANkLd TIL Pablo Picasso was influenced by the Japanese artist Hokusai's erotic woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife." Picasso drew his own private version in 1903, titled Dona i Pop.
GYErj TIL a statue of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was unveiled in 2001, alongside a wall with a quote from Paterno- "I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach." It was removed in 2012 following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
loY7 TIL that George W Bush’s AIDS prevention response in Southern Africa was actually a FAILURE, and the rate of new infections grew as a result of it.