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TIL “percussive maintenance” is the term for banging and shaking something until it works

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yQBEa TIL that the Hawaiian battle of Kuamo’o featured weapons ranging from slings and stones to a swivel gun mounted on the platform of a double canoe.
xebB TIL that the term “third world” refers to the political allegiance of a country and has nothing to do with its level of development.
0dm8M TIL that during Christmas in 1915, a year after the Christmas Truce, when thousands of Allied and Entente soldiers traded gifts and played soccer in no-man’s-land, the Germans tried to make it happen again with Canadian soldiers. The Canadians responded by opening fire
xJWo TIL In Scrubs, Ted’s (played by Sam Lloyd) band ‘The Worthless Peons’ is Sam Lloyd’s actual a capella band 'The Blanks’ which he formed in college.
wjlW TIL In 1996 a middle aged bank robber rubbed lemon juice on his face because he thought it would make him invisible on camera.