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TIL The Canterbury Earthquake distorted train tracks in 2010

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oRlpR TIL some clothes have a tag with the manufacture date! It’s usually on the shinier little tag. Ex. 07/20 or SUM 09. This brings me joy.
mwpO TIL Israel has a long history of passing along secret US Military technology to China.
MeKO0 TIL The longest anyone's been in a coma is 37 years and 111 days. A six year old girl was in hospital for a routine appendectomy, she went under general anaesthetic and never woke up. She was in a coma from August 6th 1941 to 1978.
eAVJ TIL the Honey Badger uses “suffocating” gases from its reversible anal pouch to sedate bees while raiding a beehive
4Xrw6 TIL Alcohol's measurement is coined "proof" because, during the 1500s, England would increase taxes on drinks containing a higher percentage of alcohol. They would measure this is by soaking gunpowder in the alcohol and trying to ignite it. If it ignited, this was "proof" that it had a high content.