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TIL that chainsaws were originally invented to aid childbirth.
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TIL that when Aaron Sorkin was asked why Tom Cruise and Demi Moore don’t sleep together in A Few Good Men, Sorkin responded: “Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise.”
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TIL that after inventing the lie detector, William Moulton Marston was asked to create and develop a superhero for DC Comics. At his wife's insistence that the superhero be female, Marston created Wonder Woman.
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TIL, that the oldest potted plant in the world was brought to kew gardens in London in 1773 and is still there today.
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TIL Landmines planted on the coasts during the Falklands War accidentally created penguin sanctuaries. The penguins are too light to detonate the mines, so they live and breed safely. The sanctuaries are so popular and profitable that there are efforts to prevent removal of the mines.
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TIL the last man to walk on the moon wrote his daughter's initials in the moon dust. When the shuttle program later began, he chose to leave NASA, saying: "Once you've gone to the moon, staying home just isn't good enough."