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TIL: The foam hand prototype was created by a high school student in 1971 for a basketball tournament

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g0Gy TIL that the common Sikh name Singh isn’t actually a last name but rather one added to all baptized Sikh males.
yVGbp TIL the 1990 Larry Cohen film "The Ambulance" is the first film to feature a Stan Lee cameo.
6npw TIL of “imprints”, hand-reared falconry birds sexually attracted to their keepers. To breed an imprint, the keeper “lets the male bird copulate with his head” while wearing a special hat for semen collection
Lwwv TIL that China is implementing a game-like scoring system that ranks all citizens’ levels of “patriotism,” rewards those that agree with the party, and punishes people for interacting with low-scoring citizens
EvLo TIL that President Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers because they went on strike. He also lifetime banned them from the FAA.