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TIL in Quebec Canada babies come with manuals.

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8a4VG TIL: When Lawrence of Arabia was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 1935, his doctor, Hugh Cairns, realized that his life might have been saved had Lawrence been wearing a helmet. Cairns introduced crash helmets for military dispatch riders, thereby reducing fatalities by 50%.
RjV7 TIL The most corrosive acid is fluoroantimonic acid, with a pH of -31.3. It is 100,000 billion billion billion times more potent than stomach acid.
yVVEJ TIL Marlon Brando was originally cast to play one of the two priests in the beginning of Scary Movie 2 but withdrew due to health issues
9wBQ6 TIL that Colonel Sanders of KFC never exceeded the rank of private in the US Army, but was later given the title of "Kentucky Colonel" by the Governor of Kentucky, an honorary title for civil service.
69bvw TIL that the last ever original Mini to leave the factory was a car that was used by workers to get around the plant, had a shipping container dropped on it, stripped of its engine and gearbox, and abandoned in one of the service tunnels. It was recovered and sold at an auction in 2013.