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TIL That the Chinese Segway rip off, 9Bot, used the money it got from selling the rip off to buy the original Segway company.

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RmJj TIL that in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, at least 300 people lost their lives because the doors opened inwards. This prompted the regulation that all doors in a public building must open outwards.
Z4BG TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Walmart
1JnP TIL avocados are poisonous to birds, cats, dogs, rabbits, and basically ALL pets.
78nbb TIL that lead, a notorious neurotoxin, was used as a sweetener in Ancient Rome, having been confirmed to cause the death of Pope Clement II
p8MO TIL: 35% of Democrats polled in 2007 believed the President or the CIA knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.