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TIL that the American inventor Isaac Newton Lewis—creator of the Lewis Gun used by America and her allies in WWI—turned down more than $1.2 million in royalties for his invention, equivalent to $35.5 million in 2022 terms

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X0Dbk TIL The largest real explosion created for a film was for the James Bond film "No Time to Die." They used thousands of gallons of fuel and 300 pounds (136 kg) of explosives to set a Guinness World Record.
xnY5 TIL an ancient method of starting fire in SE Asia used a device called a fire piston that used rapidly compressed air to ignite a piece of tinder–the same principle used in diesel engines.
nQdb TIL Cashews are deadly poisonous before roasting and are hard to harvest because their shells are poisonous to the touch
nnad TIL that voted fraud was a likely culprit for Kennedy’s victory over Nixon. One case in Texas had 6,138 votes cast in a county of only 4,895 voters.
WxJA TIL in The Vagina Monologues a 13-year-old girl is raped by a 24-year old woman, and it is referred to as “a good rape” & a healing experience. When a man at a newspaper wrote an article asking why rape was only wrong when a man committed it, but woman-on-woman rape was celebrated, he was fired.