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TIL Astroglide was invented by NASA engineers while working on the space shuttle

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paAQ TIL that the smallest form of the US Dollar is the mill. It is worth 1/1000 of a dollar and used mostly in accounting and oil prices.
9Yjkp TIL Veronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' trilogy, wrote her 1st book in her senior year at Northwestern University. Her career took off with the publishing rights sold before she even graduated college & the film rights sold before the novels were even printed.
6WbY TIL: The “Cult Awareness Network”, meant to provide information on groups it considered cults, was bought by Scientology in a hostile takeover. Now it is known as the “New Cult Awareness Network” and is run by Scientology.
JYbvV TIL automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking." At that time, "jay" was a derogative term for people from rural areas, like "hick."
XZLX TIL that walking through a doorway can cause you to “reset” your memory which causes you to forget why you went into another room in the first place.