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TIL “new car smell” is carcinogenic.

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OoA4R TIL Lil Peep's grandfather, John Womack, was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his bachelor's degree and PhD at Harvard, eventually becoming a Harvard Professor of Latin American History and Economics.
5V7G8 TIL in the 1970s hysteria over the arrival of killer bees in the United States created a genre of "killer bee movies". One of the most well-known movies was the 1978 film "The Swarm", directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine. It scored 9% at Rotten Tomatoes.
WldA TIL that when smoking was allowed on aircraft, engineers used nicotine stains on the outside of planes to detect microscopic cracks in the fuselage. Now that smoking is banned, these cracks have become much more difficult to detect.
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