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TIL fuel made from grass is called "grassoline"

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loxV7 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
EvQW TIL there is evidence that once infected with a flu, the virus influences humans to be more social and come into contact with large groups of people.
570P TIL an Austrian, claiming to be a member of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, successfully convinced his gov’t that he had to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo because it was his “religious headgear”. The gov’t made him undergo a psychiatric evaluation first.
4X56N TIL In 1951, Mel Blanc (the voice of most Looney Tunes) accomplished what was then considered to be impossible, when he voiced both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, doing impersonations of each other. According to voice actors, the impressions should have muddled, or the voices straddled one another.
PYZyG TIL that a survey shown 99% of women in prostitution were victims of violence, and they had more frequent injuries than people in occupations considered most dangerous, like mining, forestry and fire fighting