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TIL that there is a Velcro alternative that is 8x stronger than Velcro

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RBA6 TIL that “bride burning” accounts for one death per hour of Indian women, and is considered as rampant as it was 2500 years ago.
a8MXo TIL that creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death
R7BK4 TIL After publishing his 1953 National Book Award winning debut novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison got to work on his second novel. In 1967 the manuscript of his already-overdue second novel was destroyed in a fire in his home. Ellison did not publish another novel before he died in 1994
xna7 TIL the United States’ national anthem began its life as a drinking song in an English gentlemen’s club
x7W7 TIL that George Washington was the first head of state to be called “President”, but back then the term was equivalent to “foreman” or “overseer”. The senate objected because they didn’t think he would be taken seriously with “a silly little title like President of the United States of America.”