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TIL the inventor of the glow stick didn’t know glow sticks were used for parties until 2013

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MeKaa TIL the phrase "dung-wet" (meaning very wet) was considered "obsolete" by the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1st edition (1897) but the phrase was unexpectedly found on Twitter, having survived to present day by speakers of Carribean English.
rxK1 TIL: US Customs and Border Protection wants you to know that “bolts” and “screws” are not quite the same thing. It takes this distinction VERY seriously, and has released a 21 page technical document about how to tell the difference between the two.
MJe8 TIL that there is evidence to suggest that Vincent Van Gogh didn’t kill himself, as is widely believed, but was accidentally shot by kids.
rR6a4 TIL The person who created and wrote great shows such as 'Parks and Recreation', 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and The Good Place is Dwight's weird cousin Mose from 'The Office US'
V4pB TIL During the 1970’s an amazing experiment was undertaken where several families lived in an Iron Age village for fifteen months, the footage taken was later turned into a TV documentary