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TIL Corinthian Leather is just a marketing term invented by a Chrysler PR firm in the 70s

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P1lkV TIL of Aaron Mitchell, a man who tried to kill himself by running into a large fire at Burning Man in 2017. He was pulled from the fire and died several days later.
69doZ TIL that it was calculated that it would have taken the concrete for the Hoover Dam 125 years to cool if it was poured as one continuous pour. Instead giant concrete blocks in columns were poured and then cooled by a series of internally contained pipes of cold water, greatly reducing cooling time.