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TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!

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8eGvG TIL Junk e-mail is called spam because early internet users referenced a Monty Python skit. Hormel unsuccessfully sued to prevent companies calling junk mail spam. In 2006 they sponsored Spamalot, embracing the humor of Spam
epNyJ TIL: There was a Democratic-Republican Party in the USA founded in 1792
ve1r TIL that in 2001, an LA artist impersonated a Caltrans worker, forged an invoice, used a hidden ladder, and installed his own freeway sign in the presence of another highway crew. Nobody noticed, he was never charged, and the sign remained for over eight years.
47g6 TIL that the infamous “chestburster” scene in “Alien” was inspired by a screenwriter’s struggle with Crohn’s disease, a inflammatory bowel disease that made him feel like something was trying to punch its way out of his chest.
69AEQ TIL after Hitler met Franco in 1940, he told Mussolini: "I prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to that man again!"