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TIL Gasoline Has a Surprisingly Short Shelf Life

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mxAnE TIL the record time for driving from NYC to LA (the ~2800 mile/4500 km "Cannonball Run") is 25 hours 39 minutes. To avoid getting stopped, the car was disguised as a pоlіcе interceptor, and had brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera
awRKN TIL that the first movie to use the "pie in the face" gag was 1909's "Mr. Flip", in which the actor Ben Turpin gets hit with a pie after harassing a waitress.
OGYL7 TIL that wasps are carnivores. They typically eat other bugs but will also eat cooked meat and chicken
9YmXr TIL The Talking Heads only had ONE top 10 hit: Burning Down the House. Once in a Lifetime didn’t even make the top 100.
xVRew TIL that the US is NOT in the top 10 most obese countries in the world (by obesity rate). The top 10 are all Pacific Islands, #11 is Kuwait, and #12 is USA