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TIL that ‘TASER’ is actually an acronym for 'Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle’, named by the creator Jack Cover after his favorite childhood character and book.

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0xQL TIL I learned of the quote on Bobby Kennedy’s gravesite: “What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness; but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another”
e0YV5 TIL that a teaspoonful of a neutron star weighs six billion tons
K1eQ TIL Nestle pays only $2.25 to bottle and sell a million liters of water
RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.
xVejb TIL that an Australian local GP has saved a boy's life by using a household drill to bore a hole in the child's skull after he was injured in a bike accident