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TIL that the word 'Trampoline' was created and Trademarked in 1936, and comes from the Spanish 'trampolín', meaning a diving board.

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neGBo TIL in the UK, Superman was portrayed in an anti-smoking campaign against his arch rival Nick O’Teen - an evil villain who looked like a human cigarette butt with yellow stained teeth. The campaign was aimed at kids aged 7 to 11 and 800,000 of them ask for an anti-smoking campaign pack via the mail.
KYZpJ TIL that Margaret Dickson was hanged in 1724, but was later found to be still alive. She was then released because, under Scots Law, her punishment had been carried out. The words 'until dead' were only added to the sentence of hanging later.
0dg7R TIL: Kodak's "Shirley Cards" was used as a standard for skin tone in photography.
LQo9Z TIL that first person to perform cardiac catheterization did so on himself. He then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take an x-ray to prove that the procedure was not fatal. Despite his success, he was fired and later became a Nazi. However, he eventually won the Nobel Prize.
Oo0RY TIL that the Allied forces were able to estimate the monthly production rate of German tanks using probability theory during World War 2.