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TIL Pouring super-glue onto cotton or wool can start a fire.

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M9Gb TIL In 2008 a guy named Mike Merrill sold shares of his life for $1 and gives up decisions to his shareholders. He’s up ton $4.50 a share.
dDygd TIL that the infamous image of a man who lost his jaw, was falsely associated with Eben Byers (who had his jaw surgically removed after taking daily doses of radium for 3 years), in reality, this image is from a book about plastic surgery from 1943
lobm1 TIL of the Mountjoy prison escape in Ireland where three IRA men escaped the prison in a hijacked helicopter
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