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TIL Cards used in the Jacquard loom led to computer technology.

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b6pAj TIL: Jimmy Carter created the "Mental Health Systems Act of 1980" to establish Mental Health facilities in communities across America. It was promptly repealed in 1981 by incoming president Reagan.
GgBQ TIL Chlorine trifluoride is a substance so flammable that an accident resulted in 900 kg burning straight through a foot of concrete and three feet of gravel. Cloth, wood, water, sand, and asbestos all make it burst into flames. The only way to stop it is to wait for it to burn itself out.
9wp5X TIL in 1963 Popular Science magazine advocate an efficient way to dispose of used motor oil, by using a hole filled with gravel. The oil "will be absorbed into the ground before your next (oil) change".
BEoK TIL the reason that NORAD annually tracks Santa Claus’ journey from the North Pole is because Sears printed an ad to talk to Santa on his private line, with a wrong phone number that was actually CONAD’s top secret hotline that would only ring if there was a national crisis
lNVG TIL “spilled” and “spilt” are both right. They’re completely interchangeable.