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TIL That the experimental T-13 grenade of World War II was designed with a size, weight and shape similar to a baseball, thus making it easy for young American men to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.

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7rnwM TIL that when his friend Hephaestion died, Alexander the Great held a hugely expensive funeral that it has been estimated to have cost the modern equivalent of two billion dollars
p8EGQ TIL toilet paper originated in China around AD 589 but was not commercially packaged until 1857 by New York entrepreneur Joseph Gayetty. It was marketed as “The greatest necessity of the age!”
P9pO TIL that JFK, when stranded on the Solomon Islands, wrote a rescue message on a coconut, and was rescued. He got the coconut back, and it was on his desk in the Oval Office.
wLg4P TIL that H G Wells was inspired to write War of the Worlds by the plight of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
jgVM TIL an African woman was brought to London in 1810 and exhibited as a freak show due to her large buttocks