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TIL Post-it Notes were invented from a glue no one could find a use for.

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lK1K TIL that flames conduct electricity.
GAwWQ TIL although Showgirls (1995) grossed just $37.8 million against a $45 million budget during its theatrical run, it went on to earn more than $100 million from home video sales & rentals which allowed the film to turn a profit. It also became one of MGM's top 20 all-time home video bestsellers.
mx1pP TIL that Percy Bysshe Shelley, famous romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was expelled from Oxford in 1811 due to his publication and distribution of the pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism".
lo00a Til accounts of post combat PTSD date back to Mesopotamia during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The Mesopotamians explain the disorder in terms of spirit affliction; the spirit of those enemies whom the patient had killed during battle causing the symptoms
4NG6 TIL one of the few actual quick-draw duels in the Old West occurred on July 21, 1865 between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt. Despite the popular perception of lawlessness in the Old West, Hickok was tried for manslaughter after winning the duel.