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TIL after hurricane Katrina, many residents had to throw out their refrigerators due to the decomposing food becoming so toxic that it melted plastic, corroded metal, and ate through the rubber door lining.

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rNNxd TIL height is inversely correlated with life expectancy. Studies have found that men below 5' 9" live on average 4.95 years longer than men above 5' 9".
nenpd TIL Al Capone was the first person to open a soup kitchen to feed the poor during the Depression. At a time of 25 percent unemployment, Capone's kitchens served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal. Soon, every city and town had a soup kitchen.
N7KV1 TIL that during the manhattan project, there was a legitimate concern that upon the detonation of an atomic bomb, the atmosphere would ignite and turn the earth into a mini star, killing everybody.
awd19 TIL that most of the characters in Half life 2 were modeled after real people.
8aXNL TIL that a Soviet teenager Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them, Betrayed and captured, she is said to have shot the Nazi detective who captured her.