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TIL that the guy who invented the koosh ball , invented it because his own child was having trouble catching a ball

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nyKY TIL that if you add the hunters from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, you would end up with more armed people than the largest Army in the world. If you add the rest of 46 states, this number would dwarf any Army in the world.
vPPVK TIL Lieutenant Commander Richard (Dick) Halsey Best (WW2 dive bomber) sank two Japanese aircraft carriers in one day
ZLY4 TIL Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man & The Fly, he purposely left his name off out the advertisements so people didn’t think they were comedies.
mxl6M TIL of Chen Sheng, a military captain who was ordered to lead 900 men to battle but realised he would not make it in time and that they would be executed. Instead he started a rebellion that led to the fall of the dynasty ruling at the time.
Oowke TIL about Rubber Duck debugging, a name for solving a problem by trying to explain it to someone else