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TIL Bizzy Bone wasn’t in the mountain scene for the Crossroads video so they stood a broom next to the car

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59p8 TIL Daniel Inouye was a Japanese American soldier in WWII who led an extremely triumphant battle against Nazi forces, in which he cooked a grenade in his right hand, was shot in his right arm, and pried the grenade out with his left and threw it to destroy a German bunker.
P1X0V TIL there exists the Clowns Egg Register in London, an archive of the make-up styles for clowns, in which the clowns' face paint is painted onto eggs. Established in 1946, the register originally used hens' eggs but has since switched to ceramic eggs.
ygmw TIL A Saskatchewan man didn’t have enough money for the 3D printer he wanted, so he crafted his own. Then he got backing for it on Kickstarter to make more and is selling a DIY kit for his 3D printer called “The Peachy Printer” for $100.
yQBBM TIL about history's most expensive "hyphen" when a NASA programmer missed out a single hyphen whilst transcribing a mathematical formula for the guidance system which caused an entire NASA rocket launch to be aborted and the rocket destroyed.
xVVmb TIL one of the worst cases of child abuse. Genie, as she would become known, was a feral child when discovered at the age of 13.