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TIL the inventor of the Super Soaker & Nerf Gun was a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University Ph.D. and former NASA scientist.

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EgYL0 TIL that in 2015, a Columbian man's lung tumors were found to be the result of a tapeworm that had burrowed inside him developing cancer and spreading it to the man.
yV5Jw TIL chicken tenders were first made in 1974 in Manchester, NH by the Puritan Backroom restaurant
D9Kr TIL Alton Brown, host of Food Network’s “Good Eats” was originally a cinematographer. He shot the video for R.E.M’s “The One I Love,” among others. He also didn’t attend culinary school until AFTER deciding to start a cooking show.
lonN5 TIL that the fastest airspeed record is held by the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a plane designed in the 60's. The record speed, however, is NOT the Blackbird's maximum speed which is still classified.
GAZN7 TIL: You can be elected to be a UK MP even if you do not hold British citizenship.