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TIL “new car smell” is carcinogenic.

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d8Qwr TIL that Bhutan only permitted television and the Internet in 1999, with the King saying that television was a critical step to the modernization of Bhutan, but warning that the "misuse" of this new technology could erode traditional Bhutanese values
1JVW TIL that a struggling young Harper Lee once received one year’s wages as a gift from a friend with the note: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She used her time off to write “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
157r TIL- in Minnesota it is against the law to sell an American flag that is not made in the U.S.
16Dmr TIL: There was a Roman pharmacologist named Sextius Niger who wrote that you can increase sexual desire by eating salamanders that were preserved in honey. He was also head of a school of philosophy known as the School of the Sextii which recommended vegetarianism.
QNnEL TIL Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane (although his flight was a year after his was out of office). There's video, even.