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TIL that glue was made by melting horses, fish, and other animals before the invention of synthetic adhesives

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Kog6 TIL Gene Wilder was insulted by the remake of Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), specifically the influence Johnny Depp and Tim Burton had on the film.
R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
xkrD TIL that more Colombians die every year from American tobacco than Americans die from Colombian cocaine
7awP TIL of a town in Buenos Aires that stayed 25 years under water. It wasn’t until 2009 that the water started to recede to reveal a post-apocalyptic scene.
E1Bmo TIL: There is a Victorian time capsule under Cleopatra's Needle in London that contains photographs of the 12 best looking women in England