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TIL Thomas Jefferson is credited by the OED as the first person in history to use the word “Shag”, to mean “to have sex with”

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DEJJ TIL asbestos in the United States has not been banned and is totally legal. When the Environmental Protection Agency tried to ban it, supporters of the asbestos industry actually overturned the ban in a lawsuit. It is still widely used in products to this day.
YEkd TIL that because bullets move faster than sound, a shot to the head could kill you before you even hear the gun fire
M7eR8 TIL The QBert arcade game had a special "knocker" inside the cabinet that would make a physical "knock" when QBert fell off the stage (landing inside the arcade cabinet.)
DQ5mj TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”
AV7d TIL that Elsa from Frozen was originally evil until the executive producer realized she reminded him of his son