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TIL Fuel-Air bombs make you suffer: The intense pressure wave and vacuum ruptures your lungs but "causes minimal damage to brain tissue…it is possible that victims...are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate"

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5Ye4n TIL during Prohibition, Pabst Brewing Company stopped making beer and switched to cheese production, selling more than 8 million pounds of Pabst-ett Cheese. When Prohibition ended, the company went back to selling beer, and the cheese line was sold to Kraft.
neBbB TIL from the 1930’s to the 50’s, film studios used pure white asbestos fibers to replicate the look of snow. It was used in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the famous snow scene at the end of Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas.’ Brands of asbestos fake snow included ‘White Magic’ ‘Snow Drift’ and ‘Pure White.’
e0oD5 TIL reindeers can see in UV. They avoid power lines in darkness because they see them not as dim, passive structures but, rather, as lines of flickering light stretching across the terrain.
8rr4 TIL that since 1945, the USA has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which had been democratically-elected
0nQ1 TIL that the body of an astronaut killed in the Columbia disaster was found to have been looted and her wedding ring stolen. Plans by Texas Rangers and her widower to find the thief by informing the public were allegedly suppressed because “…it would not be good publicity for NASA.”