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grEwb TIL that pro bowling balls have specially shaped "weight blocks" inside them to change how the ball curves
epN0b TIL the Great Chicago Fire wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the midwest the day it happened. The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin burned 1.2 million acres and killed anywhere from 1500 to 2500 people, five times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.
5BgQ TIL an MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort,” possibly eliminating the need for central heating and cooling.
nyab TIL The colored dots found on soda cans consist of all the colors used in the can design. If a can makes it through production and a dot is gone, then laborers will be able to trace the problem to a single machine applying that color, without shutting down all of the machines to resolve the problem
9YQnM TIL that, legally speaking, there is only a single town in Pennsylvania; Bloomsburg. Every other municipality is either a city, township, or borough.