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TIL That hand warmers work by making iron rust ,and we just Use the excess heat coming from that reaction!

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oRmmY TIL when you flipped a cigarette in a pack and called it was called a lucky from WWII, it was smoked last because you were lucky enough to make it through that day.
OoRna TIL that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Director of Research wrote in a private internal memo that the warning labels on cigarettes helped boost sales with young adults who love taking risks and believe they are "immortal"
5YK8p TIL about "Star Jelly", a strange jelly or slime that sometime appears on earth in the morning before disappearing or dissolving. Science has not explanation of this phenomenon. (Fixed link)
69NAl TIL about the Kentucky Meat Shower, where mysterious chucks of meat fell from the sky in 1876
yGJw TIL there is a drug, ibogaine, that after one dose eliminates the craving for heroin, cocaine and alcohol