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TIL The new car smell is actually Formaldehyde.
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Gn0N
TIL claw machines are pre-programmed with a payout rate, only allowing users to win every so often. This has led to an ongoing dispute about the status of the machines as gambling devices.
VMokQ
TIL that the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs extends to their families- daughters Jennifer Gates and Eve Jobs are also equestrian rivals, having competed against each other show jumping.
J1Bl1
TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.
9YOLM
TIL that in the US the Rod of Asclepius, symbol of the deity associated with healing and medicine, is often confused with the staff of the god Hermes, the caduceus.
RZk4
TIL that not only did Roy Sullivan survive seven lightening strikes, but after he was struck the seventh time he fought off a bear by hitting it with a tree branch, making it the 21st time he hit a bear with a stick.