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TIL Steve Comisar sold 'Solar Powered Clothes Drier' in national magazines for $49.95 each. Customers received a length of ordinary clothesline.

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grwA7 TIL 70% of roughly 100 human deaths by grizzlies have been by mothers defending cubs, whereas, there is no record of a black bear mother killing anyone in defense of cubs. Mothers with cubs were involved in 3 of the 61 killings by black bears across America since 1900, but not in defense of her cubs
mxGpO TIL The U.S Approved a Plan to Build the Nation’s Largest Solar Project in the Desert by 2022
VMD0k TIL October 31, 2000 was the last time every person in the world was on Earth. Since then, there has been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station.
p7AN TIL according the quantum mechanical experiments, the future determines the present
GYgAQ TIL that right before WW2, the US created the "Logan Bar," a chocolate bar that deliberately tasted "a little better than a boiled potato" as an emergency ration to prevent soldiers from snacking on it outside of emergency situations.