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TIL the common plastic garden chair is called a "Monobloc" chair, and was once banned in Switzerland for polluting the cityscape.

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R7K7l TIL ‘Nigerian Prince’ scam e-mails are intentionally filled with grammatical errors and typos to filter out all but the most gullible recipients. This strategy minimizes false positives and self-selects for those individuals most susceptible to being defrauded.
5YYpQ The most dangerous pollutant might not even be known yet.
e0LK4 TIL about the inventor of Cosplay, Myrtle R. Douglas, aka Morojo. A Science Fiction fanzine editor, in 1939 she created costumes, based on an H.G. Wells movie, for her and her boyfriend to wear to the first World Science Fiction Convention. Within several years costumes became integral to Worldcon.
8ev0b TIL Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076) was assassinated by a spy below his personal latrine with a spear… in the posterior
9wrKD TIL nearly 24% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named Mary while nearly 22% of the men were named John. The popularity of the names declined over the years to nearly 4% and 5% respectively by 1994.