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TIL that the “immunity to iocane powder” plot device has a basis on an ancient king

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wbZE TIL there are 54 tanks of liquid nitrogen unprotected on the streets of New York. They are used to cool underground cables and have to be replaced every 3 days. Despite being knocked over by cars, no tanks have exploded and there have been no major leaks.
dDKGj TIL France outlawed discardable dishware in fast food restaurants.
KO5AE TIL All speakers can work as microphones and vice-versa; if you plug your headphones into a mic input, you can speak into them and use them as a microphone. The inverse is true as well.
woVD8 TIL President John Tyler, America's tenth president, would later get elected to a seat in the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.
vv9R TIL that the driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years. There is absolutely no precipitation in this region.