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TIL About 3D Printing Homes

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drj7 TIL that around 1778, fashionable Parisian women rarely went out in potentially stormy weather without lightning rods attached to their hats–an artist sketched this hat-lightening-rod contraption (looks like a long drooping chain hanging off the hat, rather than an upright antenna).
MeDnA TIL Pluto is legally a planet whenever it passes over New Mexico
ZpjXa TIL that the internet 'weighs' about as same as a large strawberry
r7ne TIL One of the 3 Lethal Injection drugs paralyzes the prisoner. This makes their death look peaceful to onlookers, but can hide suffering.
rNMb4 TIL staunch segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer Asa Earl Carter wrote the novel that the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales is based on