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TIL Tim Derk invented the T-Shirt Cannon in the mid 1990s. It was inspired by "spud launchers" during wartime, and quickly caught on with sports team mascots.

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7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
b95jN TIL Napoleon married Marie Antoinette's great niece, Marie Louise, by proxy, who grew to like him after hating him at the beginning
e0Vrk TIL that a single Anonymous Sperm Donor has fathered 150 children, and inspired two movies.
GARVG TIL: In 2019, Salman Mirza and his ex wanted to hook up, but didn't have a condom, so they used epoxy resin to seal it in instead. His friends later found him unconscious and drove him to the hospital where he died of multiple organ failures due to the faux condom.
epKp5 TIL From 1825 to 1835 Justus von Liebig did research and taught his students practical chemistry out of a dissused barrack. It was not until 1833 that the teachings were accepted by the university, with new laboratories coming later.