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TIL Steven Seagal told Katherine Heigl he had 15yr old girlfriends

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rJaM TIL Brazil tried to sell an aircraft carrier on eBay, but the auction was removed from the website under rules preventing the sale of military ordnance
0www1 TIL when the first escalator in London was installed at Harrods in November 1898, customers were offered brandy at the top of the escalator “to revive them after their ordeal.”
5YDeB TIL a newly crafted DNA base pair, an unnatural base pair (UBP), has been used to create a semi-synthetic organism that can make amino acids and proteins not otherwise found in nature
5VxeQ TIL canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide
R7bA8 TIL that the False Consensus Effect is real, and causes people to believe their opinions are more widely shared than they actually are, making us more confident than we should be that we are “right”. This is often exaggerated since we generally surround ourselves with others who share our opinions.