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TIL fuel made from grass is called "grassoline"
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nePXr
TIL that meal worms can break down plastics like Styrofoam and sadly "No attempts to commercialize this discovery have been made."
KOPkB
TIL a young Tina Fey provided voices for a pinball machine called Medieval Madness in 1997 as two princesses, the dialogue for the game was written by future 30 Rock co-star Scott Adsit
kOWEg
TIL The highest recorded fall without a parachute happened in 1972 at 33,333 ft. The victim, Vesna Vulović was in the hospital for 16 months after the fall.
0wNbL
TIL that visitors to the Sistine Chapel are barred from taking any photos of the frescoes painted by Michelangelo. This is due to a Japanese company owning the copyright to all of the images within the building, which they won via an auction held to help pay for the paintings' restoration.
p8ENO
TIL that Beate Uhse, before opening the 1st sex shop world wide, was a pilot in a German aircraft ferrying unit during WW2, flying, while occasionally being under attack, Stuka, Me 109 and even Me 262. April '45 she flew her son and his nanny on her own out of Soviet encircled Berlin to the west.