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TIL The new car smell is actually Formaldehyde.

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DGAV TIL A French bee-keeper trained his bees to consume cannabis resin, thereby producing all-natural (rather than infused) cannabis honey.
Gvk5 TIL there is a monument in Russia dedicated to enema treatments.
VW8m TIL that during the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican soldiers would grab a parsley plant and ask what it was called. If the person couldn’t roll the R in the Spanish word (Perejil) they were executed. Up to 30,000 people might have been killed through that method.
GAKN1 TIL Author Octavia E. Butler used "Make America Great Again" as the presidential campaign slogan for the dictator Andrew Steele Jarret in her 1998 dystopian novel, Parable of the Talents.
nRk9 TIL in order to eliminate gender bias, many orchestras use blind auditions in which the candidates play their instrument behind a screen.