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TIL Velcro hates it when you use "Velcro" as an actual word.

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78L0P TIL of Maurice Wilson who, against all odds, flew his own plane from England to India to be the first to summit Everest under the assumption that ‘prayer and fasting’ would give him the strength to reach the peak.
VMMmm TIL that there is a company that records the random movement of lava lamps to generate random numbers for encryption services
J1PwQ Today I learned of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles (ramen noodles) and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles.
P1Ybe TIL John Wayne Gacy can be linked to two other serial killer "operations" by what seems to be sheer coincidence
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