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TIL the name of the stretchy glue that holds new credit cards to the paper is called Fugitive Glue.

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wPn8 TIL that actor Paul Marcarelli - the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy - told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.
XENMr TIL The popular Frisbee game originated from schoolchildren throwing the pie dishes from a local bakery called Frisbee's.
WQ7o TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”
kO6Ee TIL that on February 20, 1939 there was a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden and over 20,000 people attended. The official name for the event was the “Pro American Rally”.
Zwpp TIL a man born premature with cerebral palsy, was unable to swallow on his own until the age of 1, is blind, was unable to speak or walk until the age of 16, began playing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1 on piano in the middle of the night at age 16. He now can play any song after hearing it only once.