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TIL - Lighters were invented before matches.

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x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.
MekJb TIL That motion/car sickness is caused because your brain thinks you have been poisoned and is trying to get it out of your system.
Md98 TIL The Walt Disney Company is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world and the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. military
wDaW TIL one of the first instances of a stored computer program was in 1801, when Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a loom that wove fabrics based on hole-punched cards that were fed into the machine.
xV0KD TIL the first ever strike in written records was amongst the workers by the Valley of The Kings in Egypt, around 1170 B.C