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TIL Gasoline Has a Surprisingly Short Shelf Life

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wLA86 TIL about Leonid Ivanovich Rogozo. He was the only medical staffer stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station(Soviet Antarctic Expedition). While there, he developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself in a case of self-surgery.
NBDQ TIL That North America uses a different paper standard than the rest of the world
Gx8G TIL A handful of Bronze-Age men could have fathered two thirds of Europeans
GBQ4 TIL the US Government considered nuking the Moon just to intimidate the Soviets
xw57 TIL That Texas has outlawed the purchase of common laboratory glassware without a permit in an anti-drug production effort