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TIL: The pencil has been around since the 1500’s, and have always been made with graphite. Pencils have never contained lead.

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0dkVp TIL Uwe Hohn is the only person in history to throw a javelin 100m. His world record of 104.8m was declared an "Eternal World Record" as it will likely never be broken due to the IAAF redesigning the javelin in 1986 and resetting the WR to coincide with the change.
AD7Wn TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.
eZDn TIL that hover zoom is a spyware
X4yj TIL that there’s a sculpture in front of CIA Headquarters that depicts an encryption that still hasn’t been completely solved yet…
wodoP TIL. IKEA has a secret code for naming its products. For example, bookcases are named after occupations, sofas are named after places in Sweden, and rugs are named after places in Denmark