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TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse

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oRrg8 TIL under the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 a man was fined $100 for wishing the canon firing a salute would “hit [President John] Adams in the ass.”
loRvK TIL of the term "betamaxed" which is used to describe when a superior product loses out in the market to an inferior one as a result of marketing, influence or other factors unrelated to product quality.
j6AWM TIL: You can use AI to generate recipes based on what's in your fridge
awEbN TIL a Louis XIV naval shipyard built a 40 canon vessel in 7 hours only, on 13 July 1679
4JZR TIL that you don’t have to touch a downed wire to get electrocuted, just being nearby can get you fried.