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TIL that the grippy texture on metal tools is called Knurling

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vPB4D TIL that one of the last songs to play at the World Trade Center before the towers collapsed was a cover of "How Deep is your Love"
5Ypjp TIL that Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer had written to him to do so because she would get worried about them.
kbYm TIL Oxana Malaya was abandoned at the age of 3 and raised by dogs. When she was found (8) she walked on four, barked, and completely behaved like a dog.
VZLB TIL there’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending they’re on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.
pnbp TIL that in 1937, a natural gas leak at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion that killed upward of 295 students and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.