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TIL When New Jersey’s Action Park sent crash-test dummies down its looping waterslide, the dummies were dismembered.

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xnWB TIL: There are now more than 100 wild wallabies living on the Isle of Man, between Great Britain & Ireland, after 2 of the Australian marsupials escaped from a wildlife park in the 1970s
vQVB TIL that when the US navy banned alcohol on ships in July 1914, they held one last massive party and invited ships from several nations to help drink the last of the booze. Many of the participants in the party would become enemies weeks later when WWI broke out.
l7n7K TIL that the octane rating you see at the fuel pump isn't the percentage of octane in your fuel. It's simply a measure of its resistance to engine knock in comparison to the isooctane standard.
1aJkW Have you ever played with a pocket-sized laser, wondering how far its light would travel? Could you, a naughty student inside a classroom on Earth, annoy a poor substitute teacher on Mars by waggling your laser pointer at him? T​he short answer: no. By the time the light finally reached Mars, the glint would be a million times dimmer than the faintest light visible to the human eye.
mExP TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”