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TIL David Lynch is an Eagle Scout

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7N5r TIL at age 15, Jim Carrey quit school and became a janitor to support his family. They were living out of a van.
oB86A TIL Tim Hortons originally used an apostrophe in its name, but it was dropped after it violated laws in Quebec governing the use of apostrophes.
5YgR8 TIL that Portland has started generating clean energy by replacing some water pipes with pipes that contain turbines. The turbines generate electricity from water that is already flowing under the city. The pipes are expected to generate $2,000,000 worth of renewable energy capacity over 20 years.
LkYmr TIL that the first use of an external defibrillator on a human was in 1947 by Claude Beck. The portable version of the defibrillator was invented in the mid-1960s. This machine was a revolutionary idea that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
VBNy8 TIL the waving inflatable tube man was invented in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, he was influenced by Caribbean Carnival celebrations