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TIL that the average American male's corpse can power a biodiesel car for 240 miles, assuming 37mpg. The average weight being 200 lbs, with about 25% body fat. The method has been tested to power boats.

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XEYZX TIL about the italian general Pietro Badoglio. He's responsible for the defeat of Caporetto in WWI; the use of mustard gas during the italian invasion of Ethiopia; the failed invasion of Greece, the "switch of side" and the triggering of the Italian Civil War during WWII.
xVdx0 TIL - Ketchup originally was made with mushrooms, with the mushroom version being popular around 1750. The tomato version only appeared about 100 years later.
OGQyL TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic got his LASIK surgery (to fix his vision so wouldn't need glasses anymore) done on live television. It was captured by KTLA 5 (in the Los Angeles area) in 1998.
8aJML TIL That The Field of Dreams still exists in Iowa. You can take a tour of the house, the field and they have games where the players dress up like the old teams and come out to the baseball field through the corn field.
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.