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TIL about U-Haul lesbians

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jN78j TIL the "drying" of oil paint is not due to evaporation of water or other solvents, but instead to atmospheric oxygen forming crosslinks between oil molecules, polymerizing them into a solid.
PYl6g TIL about Father Francis Gleeson, an Army chaplain during WWI. At the Battle of Ypres, among heavy casualties, he tore off the badges that marked him as a non-combatant so he could take command and hold the line.
NXXGE TIL there's a US lawyer who's made hundreds of lawsuits over snack food ingredients. Most recently it was about Frosted Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts
BrJ8K TIL that the famous Las Vegas Strip is not actually in the city of Las Vegas. It sits immediately south of the city limits and is technically located in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, NV.
EZMo TIL that Michaelangelo began dissecting cadavers at age 17 and Johns Hopkins researchers now believe he painted God with an anatomically correct brain stem on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.