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TIL that cement is to concrete as flour is to cake. Cement is a component of concrete.

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Y7YlW TIL that insects are more closely related to crustaceans than arachnids.
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yQbPJ TIL that after the Siege of Weinsberg, a surrender was negotiate in which the women were allowed to leave with whatever they could lift on their shoulders. Instead of carrying their belongings, the women lifted their husbands on their shoulders and headed out of town.
kO5A1 TIL that around Christmas of 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons murdered 16 people, 14 of which included his family. Months prior to his spree, he instructed his children to dig trenches that he later used to place his family in after their deaths. He turned himself in and never appealed his death sentence.
pYrOA TIL that during the second flight of the BAC TSR-2, the pilot had to pull off the throttle to prevent loss of vision because the fuel pump vibrated at the resonant frequency of the human eyeball.