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TIL Eddie Bauer, the Seattle based founder of the outdoor clothing company, invented and patented the badminton shuttlecock that is used today in regulation play

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epmaD TIL while filming the scene in 1983’s “A Christmas Story” where Ralphie is dressed as a sheriff, a prop man gave actor Peter Billingsley real Red Man chewing tobacco. Peter, who was 12, didn’t know the difference and ingested it. Production then had to be shut down until Billingsley recovered.
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
R7W46 TIL a near-mint copy of Action Comics No.1 dating from 1938 (the first comic book to feature Superman) now sells for $3.2 million
Bgm6r TIL that one of Ireland's biggest ever storms is known as "Night of the Big Wind"
Eg9lo TIL Utah is dubbed the "online porn capital" as it consumes the most porn in America