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TIL Gasoline Has a Surprisingly Short Shelf Life

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R88 TIL that Crocodiles, Alligators and Flounders have no finite life span, but continue to live forever unless affected by their environment.
R7jyQ TIL that in south London in 1864, Thomas Webster Rammell built an atmospheric railway for passenger transportation, called Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway, that went around 39.6 km/h (24.6 mph) through a 2.7x3m tunnel just by varying the air pressure in the tunnel before/behind the railway wagon.
oBwAK TIL of the Collage "War" of 1919. Colorado School of Mines students detonated dynamite on the University of Denver's campus as a prank. It escalated to the point that the governor had to get involved and threaten to send troops to the school's campuses.
yONX TIL Ever since the Safety Razor gained popularity after it was invented in 1904 by Gillette; every U.S. President has since been clean shaven.
9wMlB TIL that only two individuals of an endangered species called the "Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse" have ever been found.