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TIL Natural gas, is odorized by the provider or supplier in order you to be able to smell it, and that rotten eggs smell we all know isn’t natural.

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0dp4L TIL that 72 people lost their lives in plane crash in Nepal, because instead of deploying the flaps for landing, the co-pilot pulled to lever to cut fuel supply to the engine.
b69J0 TIL "Project Fantasia" that the US tried to scare the Japanese in WWII with glow in the dark foxes.
BWQx TIL that the producers of MASH didn’t want a laugh track, their argument being that there wasn’t a laugh track on the actual Korean War.
aw7Bo TIL that while at university, Prince William was called "Steve" to avoid any journalists overhearing and discovering his identity
Z8GpY TIL actors in the early silent film era often went uncredited because audiences just didn’t care — then, in 1910, actress Mary Pickford became so popular cinemas started specially advertising her films, making her the world’s first movie star