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TIL Brazil has replaced almost 42 percent of its gasoline needs with sugarcane ethanol – making gasoline the alternative fuel in the country.

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NXp8 TIL: As a Jew, you can live the most evil life imaginable and have to spend AT MOST 12 months in hell
4yog TIL that while humans possess three types of color receptor cones in their eyes, a Mantis Shrimp carries sixteen color receptive cones giving them the ability to recognize colors that are unimaginable by other species.
rNEgM TIL in the 1960s, General Electric designed a portable astronaut escape pod made out of a plastic bag called MOOSE ("Man Out Of Space Easiest"). An astronaut would reenter Earth's atmosphere in a giant, foam-filled plastic bag
4XgxN TIL Brains of Transgender people more closely resemble brains of the sex they align with.
9wVWB TIL the world record for most parachute jumps in a 24-hour period is 640 set by Jay Stokes in 2006.