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TIL The Sustainable Dance Floor uses the kinetic energy produced when people move as a source of energy that is then converted into electricity. People will be able to generate their own energy to illuminate the space around them, just by walking over SEF modules.

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NRj8 TIL: everytime a missing child that appeared in the music video of runaway train was found, the photo was replaced with a new photo from another missing child
KDDJ TIL In 2010, a man swallowed two spoonfuls of pure caffeine, and quickly collapsed and died.
ne81P TIL Coca-Cola has a medical application. It is sometimes used for the treatment of gastric phytobezoars (trapped mass in the gastrointetsinal system). In about 50% of cases studied, Coca-Cola alone was found to be effective in gastric phytobezoar dissolution.
eploL TIL that Chihuahuas were raised and sold as food by the Aztecs.
00Qv TIL that there’s a town in Texas called Earth, and it’s the only place on Earth officially named Earth