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TIL the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was suspected by the FBI of being the Unabomber.

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Va8B TIL The Dead Sea Shrinks About 3 Feet Every Year And Will Be Gone In 30 Years.
e5xE TIL in 2008, Nebraska implemented a law to allow parents to drop off unwanted newborns at safe havens; the law didn’t state an age limit, and nearly all the children abandoned were over ten years old- some were even 17!
oR70R TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.
rAO4 TIL that Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s “bloodline”, because she believes the idea of good or evil being passed through “bloodlines” is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.
awl6o TIL Philips developed a double-sided video cassette and player to rival the VHS and Betamax formats called ‘Video 2000’. Similar in nature to an audio tape it was capable of 8 hours of recording (4 hours per side). Ultimately the product remained unpopular and lost out in the ‘videotape format war’.