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TIL of La Mancha Negra, a black substance that has oozed from roads in Caracas, Venezuela since 1986 causing multiple car accidents and claiming thousands of lives. After years of study and millions of dollars spent to identify it, there is no definitive explanation.

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lrWK TIL 40% of corn is used for ethanol to add to fuel; another 40% is used for livestock feed
aeLL TIL that Earth is only “marginally” habitable. Some of the Earth-like might potentially be far more hospitable for life than Earth is.
4kkDR TIL about Crisis Apparition. A term used to explain when someone is contacted by a person they were close too, usually after death. During the after math of 9/11 many people claim to have been contacted by loved ones that died that day.
VBmmG TIL Japanese beetles did not exist in North America until 1912. They were first observed in a nursery in New Jersey after an international shipment of iris bulbs
1PED TIL that “penguin shit is like water i.e. not viscous” and that a penguin can shoot shit with a power of 4600 pascals!