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TIL alcohol is the fastest and most effective antidote if a person has consumed ethylene glycol(main ingredient in anti-freeze)

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1aZGP TIL that in 2012 Facebook ran psychological experiments on users to study "emotional contagion" without consent of users or pre-approval from ethics boards. Facebook was able to prove that it could alter the moods of users by changing algorithms of users news feeds.
yVZEp TIL Malaysian footballer Mokhtar Dahari received an offer to play for Real Madrid but he refused to accept the offer. Instead, he continued to play for Malaysian club Selangor F. C. as he prioritised patriotism and love for his home club of Selangor.
rA9w TIL Central Park’s rivers and streams are entirely artificial and can be turned on and off.
GALGJ TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient's blood and a suspected one year old toddler
XE6d8 TIL that from The Munsters, the "Munster Koach" was a hot rod built on a lengthened 1926 Ford Model T chassis with a custom hearse body. It was 18 feet long and cost almost $20,000 to build. The "Drag-u-la" was the combination of an illegally acquired coffin and a Ford Hot Rod.