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TIL - Helicopters Won’t Just Drop Like a Rock if the Engine Dies, They are Actually Designed to Be Able to Land Safely This Way

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W4Y8 TIL Rinsing with Xylitol sugar after brushing drastically reduces mouth bacteria
0J1L TIL in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited and destroyed the two largest standing Buddhist statues in the world, both over 100 feet tall and more than 1400 years old.
16rnr TIL that the blue-ringed octopus' main venom (tetrodotoxin) is not produced by the animal itself, but is instead produced by bacteria that live in their salivary glands. Mothers will inject neurotoxin into their eggs to enable their babies to produce their own venom.
8apaZ TIL that "Canola" is an acronym for [CAN]adian [O]il - [L]ow [A]cid
R7w7w TIL The Starbucks at the CIA headquarters protects the identities of its CIA patrons by never writing any names on the drinks, putting workers through intense background check processes, and not using reward cards in fear of the data of the card befalling into the wrong hands.