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TIL that the Cotton Gin got its name from the portmanteau of "Cotton" and "Engine"

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780VP TIL the hot spot fueling Yellowstone quite literally blasted through mountain ranges with volcano explosions to “rest” where it’s at today
8B6Z TIL that to demonstrate the m1917, John Browning fired the machine gun for 48 minutes straight (~21000 rounds). The US army shortly after adopted it as its standard machine gun..
nZL9 TIL the Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
grwM9 TIL seven of the thirty-nine signers of the US Constitution were not native to The Thirteen Colonies: Pierce Butler, Thomas Fitzsimons, James McHenry, and William Paterson were born in Ireland, Robert Morris in England, James Wilson in Scotland, and Alexander Hamilton in the West Indies.
8eRZ4 TIL people will implant magnets into their fingertips. Nerves grow around the magnet as the skin heals. The magnet pushes against magnetic fields produced by electronic devices in the surrounding area, giving a “sixth sense” of magnetic vision.