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TIL what the chemical propellant that inflates airbags looks like through CT scans.

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4Xb65 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant, while poor and struggling to support his family in 1859, chose to free the slave he received from his father-in-law, rather than selling his slave
X0eYr TIL in 1972, Joanne Pierce Misko, a former nun and teacher, was one of the first two women to become an FBI agent.
DJKg TIL that Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric had a daughter in 1902, one year before they were married. The existence of “Lieserl” was concealed and only discovered in 1986. Einstein is believed to have never met her, what happened to her is a mystery.
1JD7 TIL that the first movie shown in a theater setting caused the audience to run away because they thought a train was going to come out of the screen.