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TIL Keeping your gas tank less than ¼ full can end up causing your fuel pump to wear prematurely and fail.

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b9MyZ TIL the most expensive "vegetables" are hop shoots, costing up to €1,000 a kilo, which require manual harvesting and are only harvested in Belgium and the Netherlands
vlnL TIL the Dutch word for ‘tramp stamp’ is literally translated as 'arse antlers’
7mgX TIL a linguist in Minnesota spoke only Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life, as an experiment in language acquisition.
OG4lX TIL that aspiration pneumonia - a lung infection caused by breathing food or liquid - is relatively common in older hospitalized adults, is more common than other types of pneumonia, and causes death in over 1 in 5 occurences
a4oL TIL the story of Aladdin has no Arab source, was written by a Frenchman and takes places in a Chinese town and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese.