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TIL that the inventor of the AK-47 regretted inventing it, saying that he would have rather made a lawnmower.

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0wp81 TIL a man successfully escaped a high security prison using only a cardboard box
OooJR TIL that a New Zealand school generated controversy over a possum-tossing contest. Students would shoot the possums (an invasive pest in New Zealand) and then see how far they could chuck the marsupial's carcasses.
69YXY TIL: Baby swim diapers don't absorb any urine
R1J1 TIL that a drowning person doesn’t look like what one would expect. The Instinctive drowning response actually makes them unable to yell or call for help. The linked mini-game “Spot The Drowning Child” Illustrate this well. By knowing this, you could maybe save a life someday.
kOLG5 TIL that Lillian Gilbreth, the real mother from Cheaper by the Dozen, was also one of the first women to earn a PhD in engineering, pioneered the field of industrial psychology, and invented the pedal trashcan.