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TIL there are pads you can wear to make your farts not stink.

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kpKE TIL that fluoroantimonic acid, one of the strongest known acids, is about 1 quintillion times stronger than sulfuric acid
4Xwab TIL that 10th century Norwegian Viking ruler King Haakon the Good made the household production of Juleøl (Christmas Beer) a law. Families that did not have beer at their Christmas feast were issued a fine.
j6e9j TIL that the Russian space program (from the 1960s to the 1980s) was the first to not only land a probe on another planet (Venus) but also photograph it
OAJL TIL The Border Collie is the world smartest dog with one individual reported to be able to respond to 1,022 individual words
Mpl0 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections, rather than with a single, continuous pour, the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.