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TIL An Alaskan town celebrates Independence Day by launching cars off a cliff

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ADWM4 TIL that many decorative glass crystal products (e.g. decanters, wine glasses, etc.) contain lead at significant enough levels that liquids stored in them for more than a few hours are no longer safe to drink (or any length of time for children).
R5gwl TIL it's possible to have foie gras without force feeeding geese. A farm harvests wild geese that show up to eat fallen acorns and olives once a year, the high fat content allows the wild geese to developed enlarged livers.
8j9L TIL wasabi vapour has an effect similar to smelling salts, a property which has been exploited to create smoke alarms for the deaf.
yjDl TIL Wild Elephants Live Up to an Average of 39 Years Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts
QJdPM TIL the term apophenia is the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.