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TIL that Gore-Tex is composed of the material commercially know as Teflon. It has tiny perforations that will pass water vapour but not droplets.

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1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
xVdkb TIL Drinking a Beer in Space Is Impossible Because It's All Foam
8aVv4 TIL Beavis and Butthead was blamed for the death of a 2-year-old, after her 5-year-old brother set fire to their mobile home. The mother said he had watched one of the fire-related segments before starting the fire, but their neighbours said they didn't have cable TV so couldn't have seen the show.
b9Gx7 TIL that former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, who was the Republican VP nominee in 1976 and the Presidential nominee in 1992 is 97 years old and still alive. I hope this doesn't violate Rule 4.
o1kY TIL Chinese companies have been caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine.