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TIL Vesta Stoudt, an Illinois mom working in a WWII munitions plant, invented duct tape

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p8BMO TIL in the middle ages priests treated rabies by sticking religious ornaments, heated until red-hot, onto bite wounds. This actually worked because they were unknowingly cauterising and sterilising the wound.
1a5wO TIL that if two identical metals touch in space, they instantly bond together and are permanently stuck. This phenomenon is called "cold welding."
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”
gMBnA TIL, In Jan 2019, Batman Bin Suparman who works as a foodpanda delivery rider, was attacked by an officemate with a penknife. The criminal got 3 yrs sentence. Batman healed from his face wound and returned to work.
LkdG0 TIL in 1978 a Jumbo Jet bound for JFK airport with400 passengers lost an engine and was about to crash on a crowded Athens neighborhood, but Just 57 meters above ground the pilot managed to safely land on a mountain. Based on flight data gathered afterwards, the plane crashed in every simulation