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TIL general anesthesia works in single celled microbes

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p8WYA TIL that people & organizations have spent millions of dollars to build an electrical grid in Kenya to have their efforts thwarted by individuals who steal PCP contaminated oil to sell to road side vendors to fry food with.
pYNaN TIL that there is an "extinct" smell encyclopedia, search engine, and library funded by the European Union, with historical accounts from "nosewitnesses"
Y7Lyr TIL a tortoise died in 2006. It was reportedly 176 years old and collected by Charles Darwin himself, during his 1885 voyage.
5Y7QD TIL Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering
b9jbp TIL that cars had push-button start until 1949