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

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0d0PM TIL k-pop phenomenon only happened because Jurassic Park. In early 90s, Korean Government officials issued a report for the president stating the movie revenue was almost equivalent of exporting 1.5 Million Hyundai cars. As a response, the government invested a lot of money in cultural industry.
l7pDG TIL The High Treason Incident was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor in 1910
OoBZg TIL there is roughly as much vitamin C in one ounce of narwhal skin as there is in one ounce of oranges.
ne1aW TIL in 2006, Sharon Tendler became the first human to officially marry a dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin named Cindy had courted her for 15 years at the Eilat Reef resort town in southern Israel. Tendler told the media, “I am the happiest girl on earth,” and she added, “I am not a pervert.”
D1wbJ TIL that Akon, a successful artist who won several platinums stopped with music to focus on his humanitarian project "Akon Lighting Africa". This project has installed more than 200.000 solar power systems and are educating people in learning how to use solar power.