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TIL - that putting sugar in a gas tank does not ruin the engine, and is no worse than getting sand in the tank.

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Oom4e Til:The Ringelmann effect is the tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases. As more people are involved in a task, their average performance decreases, each participant tending to feel that their own effort is not critical.
OoLoY TIL In 1984, Burger King ran an ad campaign with a character called “Mister Rodney” touting its superior cooking over McDonald’s. The campaign was stopped after Mister Rogers himself called Burger King’s vice president, who had the commercial taken off the air.
KoPJ TIL a researcher has conjectured that the pineal gland releases the psychedelic compound DMT when near death. High doses of DMT caused subjects to enter into non-corporeal, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who were expecting the volunteers.
EJgd TIL the NORTH AMERICAN lottery system is a $70 billion-a-year business, bigger than movie tickets, music, and porn combined
dDwy7 TIL that Nancy Reagan officially refused to help superstar actor and personal friend Rock Hudson receive AIDS treatment in France