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TIL whale oil was such an effective lubricant that within 3 years of the 1972 US whale killing ban, yearly automotive transmission failures had climbed from under 1 million, to over 8 million.

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6ePJ TIL: The origin of saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes dates back to at least 77AD and may be due to (amongst other things) people originally believing that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed
wnbE TIL that a woman attempted to sue Disneyland for claimed humiliation and the gain of 50 pounds among other things, claiming she was fondled by one of the Three Little Pigs in “It’s a Small World” charges were dropped when it was brought up that the costume had stiff, inoperable arms.
b9Jwa TIL Wheeling Gaunt, a slave who bought his and his family's freedom in 1845 before moving to Yellow Springs, OH. At the time of his death, he bequeathed a large portion of his land and estate to the village under the condition that each widow be given flour annually, which continues to this day
X0oBQ TIL that the longest lightning bolt ever recorded was 440 miles (708 km) long, nearly stretching from one end of Brazil to the other. The lightning bolt occurred on October 31, 2018, and broke the previous record of a 199-mile (321 km) lightning bolt recorded in the US state of Oklahoma in 2007.
R5DB8 TIL the Las Vegas Strip isn’t actually located in Las Vegas, but rather Paradise, Nevada, the city directly South of Las Vegas