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TIL “new car smell” is carcinogenic.

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bA4 TIL that the real Zorro was an Irish genius who strangled himself at the stake before the fires could reach him.
dZxd TIL In the infamous 2012 Dehli bus gang-rape case, the victim was not only raped by 6 men, she also had a crooked iron rod forced inside her, rupturing her diaphragm and then had 80% of her intestines removed through her vagina by hand
GAmDG TIL There were plans for a sequel to Beverly Hills Ninja with David Hasselhoff replacing the late Chris Farley
mMRO TIL: “that we now have 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees”
rNM70 TIL: The largest reciprocating engine in the world is the RT-flex96C, a turbocharged diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships. Its 14-cylinder version is 44 ft high, 87.2 ft long, weighs over 2,300 t, and produces 107,390 hp