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TIL That Tailgating is the Primary Cause of Traffic Jams

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jN5AN TIL that the name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.
16JG7 TIL that after being excommunicated by the Pope and threatened by the invasion of England by King Phillipe II of France, King John was in negotiations with the Almohad Caliph to convert to Islam in exchange for assistance against his enemies
nWXQ7 TIL that internal combustion engines can run on wood. Using a device called a gasifier, the engine can run on the gasses produced when wood or charcoal burns.
awQab TIL the chemist who invented napalm (which has killed hundreds of thousands of people) went on to later invent the corticosteroid prednisone (which has saved hundreds of thousands of people.)
nWkXB TIL that the man who physically wrote the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris, died because of an infection of a wound that he sustained while using a piece of whale baleen as a catheter in an attempt to clear a blockage in his urinary tract.