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TIL The new car smell is actually Formaldehyde.

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X0RrR TIL about Jan Baalsrud. A Norwegian Commando who evaded German capture by swimming in arctic waters, was buried by an avalanche, hid in a cave, and amputated several of his own frostbitten toes with a knife, and was dragged on a stretcher to safety by villagers.
Rmr6 TIL that North Korea wanted to be paid in wheat for allowing a 7'8½" (2.35m) tall Ri Myung-Hun to play in the NBA.
VM7G0 TIL Erykah Badu's concert was cancelled in Malaysia in 2012 because it was found that she had applied a temporary tattoo of the word Allah on a part of her body
d8oBE TIL: in 1996 Dave Grohl had a cameo in an episode of The X-Files and had a huge crush on Gillian Anderson.
MeoWB TIL that for decades the CIA owned and ran Crypto, a Swiss company that supplied cryptography equipment to many countries; naturally, the machines were rigged to give US spooks access to everyone's communications.