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TIL that the American Association of Woodturners keep a running list of deaths due to patterning wood with high voltage sparks.

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69mQX TIL that despite the common myth that the F-14 had the world's first airborne digital microprocessor, it may have been General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark., starting with the FB-111, then later the F-111D. Therefore beating the F-14 by several years.
p84oQ TIL Sarah Jessica Parker's ancestor Esther Elwell was accused of being a witch in 1692 Salem when a young girl claimed to have seen her ghost strangling her neighbor. Esther's case never went to court and she escaped a tragic death by a matter of days, as Salem stopped trying witches 1 month prior.
ANP6d TIL that platypuses milk oozes from the surface of their skin; it also contains powerful antibacterial proteins
b6BLZ TIL about Rie Fujii, a Japanese woman who abandoned her two young children (ages 15 months and 3 months) for 10 days in an apartment in Calgary so she spend time with her boyfriend.
v19oK TIL the guy who ran an anti AIDS magazine died from AIDS