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TIL wood can be friction welded

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XnjX TIL Subway actually accepted the Onion’s fake 9/11 remembrance coupon for two subs for $9.11.
lo6M7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin and his friend would use chess as a means to learn Italian; the winner of each game would assign a task, such as parts of the Italian grammar to be learned by heart, to be performed by the loser before their next meeting
R1W9 TIL Neil Armstrong’s astronaut application form arrived a week past the deadline. His friend Dick Day saw the late arrival of the application and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed.
6koQ TIL Lola Montez, an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas & the king of Bavaria (who made her countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40
PYLaL TIL in 2004, Sylvia Browne, a psychic, told the mother of a Cleveland kidnapping victim (Amanda Berry) on the Montel Williams Show her daughter was dead. In 2006, the mother passed away without ever knowing her daughter was still alive and being held captive.