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TIL in Iceland people use geysers to bake bread.

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xVkG1 TIL As a part of Guatemala's elite Kaibiles military program, "each prospect must take care of a puppy for the two months of training and then kill it and eat it to teach themselves that the ultimate loyalty on the battlefield is survival".
85L4 TIL A 19 year old man once nearly died from drinking a quart of Soy Sauce. He holds the record for highest blood sodium level ever measured without brain damage
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”
gMNQ8 TIL about a book called Cain’s Jawbone where a detective story is told through 100 pages, but the reader has to figure out the order of the pages to solve the mysteries. Only three people have solved it to date.
6EYDl TIL about the Kearny fallout meter, designed such that someone with a normal mechanical ability would be able to construct it before or during a nuclear attack, using common household items