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TIL of Steve Comisar, who sold a ‘solar-powered clothes dryer’ for $39.99. Customers would then receive a clothesline.

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8eBxV TIL Originally Abraham Lincoln wanted a complete separation of white and black Americans. He proposed voluntary emigration to Central America, with the first destination being “Île à Vache, a.k.a. Cow Island”, which did not get clearance from Haiti, and failed spectacularly due to lack of housing
9OdM TIL prohibition made it a crime to produce, sell, or transport alcoholic beverages, but anyone who already had bottles of old liquor stocked away was free to consume them, so many rich people stockpiled reserves before the law passed
mxZQy TIL Ravoux's slavemaker ant is a species where the queen can fake her own death to encourage ants from a rival colony to drag her body back to the nest. When there, she kills the nest's queen and bathes in her pheromones, becoming the new queen. Her soldiers overrun the colony and take control.
yQoO8 TIL those responsible for the hack of Target's customers' credit card data entered through the HVAC system's internet connection which was serviceable via the web and connected to the same server as the credit card data.
oR9LY TIL Pandas survived for at least eight million years. However, it has been proven that the panda has barely evolved in basic structure, meaning that they have had minimal change since the beginning of their time.