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OVd4 TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times announced the news with the headline “Foot Heads Arms Body”
V9K4 TIL food banks largely prefer cash donations over canned food drives: for every $1 donated, most food banks can order $4-5 worth of food
E1jRX TIL US Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman is responsible for the first-ever recorded mention of a squirt gun in 1865.
xV4w0 TIL A Chinese theme park has a ride that simulates death. It begins in a "morgue" where riders are placed in a casket and carried on a conveyor belt to be "cremated” by a blast of 105 degree hot air. It ends with the rider being passed through a ‘womb’ and being reborn.
Ke7E TIL a man in Florida has collected about 15 million golf balls from golf course water hazards in the past 14 years, selling them for up to $2 each.