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TIL that Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on vegetable oil

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loGPa TIL that Walt Disney was in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps at the age of 16 during the height of the influenza pandemic in 1918
WkJdd TIL of Hessy Levinsons Taft who had her picture submitted into a contest to find the "most beautiful Aryan baby." She won. What the Judge, Joseph Goebbels, didnt know was that Hessy was a Jew and the photographer had entered the picture because he "wanted to make the Nazis (look) ridiculous."
j6GNa TIL that the cute geography cone snail kills fish and then eats them by first immobilizing them with a cloud of insulin, sending them into hypoglycemic shock, and then injecting them with venom to kill them.
rNXao TIL A study found that more years of education is correlated with higher life satisfaction, better health, and lower divorce rates even when controlling for income.
8Qn4 TIL there is a Merrica river… in Australia