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TIL there is a form of edible wood.
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TIL that the Super Soaker was invented in 1990 by NASA engineer, and Air Force Veteran Lonnie George Johnson who describes himself as a "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all U.S. patent applications."
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TIL Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451, about book burning, was printed with an asbestos cover in the year it launched
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TIL in 1927, a store that sold blocks of ice called the Southland Ice Company decided to keep extended hours, from 7am-11pm. They changed their name to 7-11. Once, after a football game, customers kept coming in and they were not able to close all night, so they adopted a 24 hour model
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TIL Rover Curiosity has been on Mars for 8 yrs [2012-2020] and still performing it's mission of studying the climate, geology, life support capacity & other task assigned by Mars Exploration Program (MEP)..
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TIL according to a new study at Duke University, WWI helmets protect against shock waves just as well as modern designs, and in one case, even better.