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TIL that “percussive maintenance” is the term for hitting something until it works

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ZbLD TIL Laos is the most bombed country on Earth: The U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos from 1964 to 1973 during the Vietnam War. That’s equal to a planeload every 8 minutes for 9 years.
mdpx TIL that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were hemp farmers and preferred smoking the flower of the plant to using tobacco or alcohol
GRLg TIL Japan not only requires identifying badges on cars for new drivers, but also for the elderly, handicapped, and hearing impaired
PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
69GQl TIL that all heredity European monarchs (plus a few claimants) all descend from John William Friso, Prince of Orange