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TIL Viagra was co-invented by a guy named Wood.

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OoEr6 TIL The largest fire in California's history was caused by a man trying to plug a wasp's nest with a stake and hammer
DRXP TIL that a judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.
b6Y00 TIL the “chain fountain” effect where a chain of beads tumbling out of a jar rises up is also called the “Mould effect” after Steve Mould’s 2013 YouTube video brought widespread public attention to the phenomenon, and Cambridge academics published a paper on it .
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