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TIL that there are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.

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aDv9 TIL… When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first man in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
Vx8p TIL Tom Green won five Razzies for Freddy Got Fingered and accepted the awards in person. He had to be dragged off the stage because he wouldn’t stop playing the harmonica.
0deMp TIL there are IKEA stores in China, even as China is the source of cheap furniture the world over.
D1lDD TIL in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt, went to his speech instead of the hospital, then continued on to roast the assassin in his speech.
6EdKW TIL that in 1972 the equal rights amendment was passed in the U.S. Senate but was never ratified by the 38 required states and has been waiting for the required number for 46 years.