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TIL Ford created the iconic Jeep design
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TIL Thomas Edison was obsessed with concrete and planned to build houses by pouring concrete into a single mold, including fixtures like the bathtub
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TIL that when dust jackets were first introduced, they completely enclosed the books and were sealed shut with wax or glue like wrapping paper. The most of these jackets were torn open and thrown away.
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TIL that many species of spiders can fly through the air with a technique called ballooning
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TIL about The Peterloo Massacre (Monday 16 August 1819, St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England) . One of it's direct consequences was the foundation of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821 ("The Guardian", in present days).
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TIL the unclaimed remains of over 400 Jonestown Massacre victims are buried together in an Oakland, CA, cemetery.