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TIL that I’ve been eating pizza lunchables on hard mode.

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rQ9M TIL that two engineering students developed a way to extinguish fires using sound waves.
0d0Gj TIL that knocking on wood was a thing because people believed that spirits lived in trees and knocking would prevent them from bad luck. (scroll a bit for the right part.)
KYdyB TIL that on June 29, 1841 William and John Driscoll were executed by a firing squad comprised of 111 "Regulators". The two men were part of a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs known as the Banditti of the Prairie which terrorize Northern Illinois during the early to mid-19th century.
XKrr TIL that Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” almost wasn’t published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called “The History of Fishes”. The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
LkR1d TIL that the 2 countries that are ranked least democratic on the democracy index are named The Democratic Republic of the Congo and The Democratic People's Republic of Korea