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TIL the "Sugar in the fuel tank to destroy an engine" is largely a myth. Only extremely large amounts of any foreign substamce might clog the filters (reposted for "clarity").

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R7YWa TIL in the 1860s, before he invented Coca-Cola, John Pemberton created French Wine Coca which was wine mixed with cocaine, and when ingested forms the drug cocaethylene which is 20 times deadlier than cocaine itself. The drink was so popular that the Pope allegedly carried a flask of it with him.
GAWvQ TIL that "thylacoleo carnifex", known as "marsupial lion", was an Australian apex predator that weighed up to 130 kg. Thylacoleo went extinct as recently as 46 thousand years ago
yVnWV TIL Robert Duvall turned down the role of Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove to play Gus McCrae, calling it one of the best roles he’d ever seen. His performance was so memorable that fans sometimes weep when visiting Gus’s mannequin, taken from his coffin scene, now displayed at Texas State University.
OoZdY TIL about the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special - which only aired once - included a singing debut from Princess Leia, Chewie's wife Malla and family, Bea Arthur as a singing cantina bartender, and a loose plot with the crew trying to get home for Life Day
RyDj TIL a hero named Rick Rescorla, while in the process of saving 2,700 lives on 9/11, called his wife and said, “Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.”