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TIL The new car smell is actually Formaldehyde.
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TIL Vietnamese pho has French origins from the stew Pot-Au-Feu.
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TIL That Penn Jillette is the voice of the announcer in the Buzz Lightyear toy commercial in Toy Story. They paid him to stand in a room and scream as loud as he could until he lost his voice.
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TIL that in Finland, speeding ticket prices are calculated on the percentage of an individual’s income. This results in millionaires facing exorbitant fees. One such case occurred in 2002 when a Nokia executive was fined $103,000 for going 45mph in a 30mph zone on his motorbike.
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TIL: In 1946, the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100,000,000 but Denmark did not agree to sell.
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TIL that Chlorine Trifluoride was so dangerous that the Nazis refused to use it. Due to unstableness, the chemical was unfit for weaponisation. The chemical burned at over 2000° C and was able to melt bunkers, tanks, and burn entire cities.