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TIL about Tunemah Peak, located in Kings Canyon National Park, California. Its name comes from a Cantonese swear word that translates to “f ---- your mother”

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LQmRr TIL that cordless, battery-operated power tools were originally created by Black & Decker for NASA so astronauts could perform maintenance on spacecraft, and would become available to the public in 1978
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