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TIL In 2012, British supermarket Sainsbury’s discovered that reducing the size of a toilet paper tube from 123mm to 112mm would allow more rolls in each truck, taking 500 trucks off the road and reducing carbon emissions by 140 tonnes.

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6EVQ TIL There is a giant hexagon shaped storm at Saturns north pole.
b9wKN TIL The "New England Vampire Panic" was an event in the 19th century where people thought that "consumption"(Tuberculosis) was actually the result of vampires. It got to the point where people would dig up those who died of Tuberculosis and stake them through the heart.
QN05L TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 30-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 320 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.
9YJdM TIL popular artist Thomas Kinkade practiced "ritual territory marking" by urinating on elevators, Disneyland sculptures, and public walkways.
e0vGg TIL that helium isn’t the only gas capable of changing the sound of your voice. Sulfur hexaflouride makes your voice deeper!