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TIL electric razors are supposed to be oiled
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TIL in 1851 because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented an ice-making machine and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, "the father of refrigeration"
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TIL The inventors of Bubble Wrap were originally trying to make plastic wallpaper.
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TIL that the last Abbasid Caliph failed to use his wealth to raise an army to defend Baghdad from the Mongols. According to Marco Polo, after the city fell the caliph was locked in his treasure room without food and told to “eat of thy treasure as much as thou wilt, since thou art so fond of it.”
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TIL Pokemon was banned in Turkey, because two children tried to imitate their favorite Pokemon and fly
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TIL Samuel L. Jackson called the free porn site RedTube the “greatest pop culture achievement of the last 50 years” during an Avengers Q&A. The quip outraged several adult film stars, who viewed the remark as an endorsement to steal porn.