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TIL toilet paper wasn’t “splinter free” until the 1930’s

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xNmk TIL a Toronto lawyer once fell to his death from a skyscraper when in an attempt to prove to some students that a glass window was ‘unbreakable’, he ran into it, only to have it pop out of its frame.
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