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TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.

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5m4D TIL that coffee makes the end of your intestine start contracting, like your prepping for poop even if you have none. That why so many people want to poop after!
1a9D8 TIL that the vas deferens can regenerate (grow back) even if as much as five centimeters (two inches) of it have been surgically removed.
Ood8Y TIL Einstein was unknowingly in a love affair with a Soviet spy for 4 years. Despite an FBI record stored in 14 boxes, or 1,427 pages, by the time he died, nothing was ever discovered of the relationship
JYevQ TIL That in in 1875, a factory worker was killed after accidentally swallowing a live mouse. It's the only publicly documented case of a mouse killing a human from something other than infection/disease.
e06m4 TIL of Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia and to caring for young landmine victims. Since 1992 he has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines, and is the founder of the Cambodian Landmine Museum.