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TIL that the technology for cleaner, healthier gas stoves has been around for decades. But appliance makers aren’t offering them because they don’t have the signature “blue flame”.

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ADoO7 TIL Televangelist Shepherd Bushiri (net worth $150 million) is the richest man in the Malawi, one of poorest country in the world.
R5797 TIL in 1956, a U-2 spy plane had an engine flameout over western Tennessee and was able to glide over 300 miles to land in Albuquerque New Mexico. Story on Page 90 of the PDF.
OA4L TIL: There is a library that was built on the US/Canadian border. Exiting the library through the opposite entrance requires one to report to the country’s customs thereafter.
wK8o TIL experts rank Starbucks coffee behind Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Tim Hortons in a blind tasting, saying “This is so bad. It’s the antithesis of coffee.”
x9D7 TIL 14th US President Franklin Pierce, When the Democratic party decided not to re-nominate Pierce after his first term in office, he told reporters, “There’s nothing left but to get drunk.”