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TIL that TASER is short for ‘Thomas A Swift’s Electric Rifle’

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edpn TIL that there’s a plant in Australia that will make you vomit in pure agony just by touching it.
DAEg TIL Americans and Europeans use their utensils differently because forks weren’t largely available to the British colonies until the 1750’s, so Americans had to use rounded table knives and spoons to eat, without stabbing their food.
5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.
OGen4 TIL that Hitler accused Czechoslovakia of committing genocide against ethnic Germans, prior to annexing and invading the country.
M7y80 TIL of caudal regression syndrome, a rare birth defect that causes regression of development of the lower spine and limbs.