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TIL that the first swivel chair was invented by Thomas Jefferson, and that he sat on it when he drafted the United States Deceleration of Independence.

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avYA TIL blowing air into woman’s vagina while she is pregnant can be potentially fatal.
AD8Dl TIL of Edward Jones, a teenager who broke into Buckingham Palace multiple times in 1838-1841. The first time he was only 14-years-old and managed to steal some of Queen Victoria’s underwear.
MebWK TIL that sea toads are deep-sea dwellers that have special fins for walking on the seafloor. They also have massive, inflatable gill chambers that expand their bodies with seawater, allowing them to take up more oxygen and protect themselves by puffing up just as pufferfish do.
Lk1V0 TIL — Pommer’s Law, one of the "Laws" of the Internet, states: “A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.”
ADG64 TIL that in 2018 the US Navy started replacing $38,000 submarine periscope joysticks with $30 Xbox 360 controllers