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TIL tea bags were originally just intended to be packaged samples of tea, but buyers found it easier to leave it in the bag to brew.

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16JWr TIL, Students at the Hillcrest Primary School were celebrating their last day of school by jumping inside of a bounce house when a strong gust of wind blew the bounce house 33 feet into the air with the children still inside causing 6 of them to die after falling out.
0wjQy TIL that, in June 2020, a team of researchers in Japan used a drone that shot pollen-dusted soap bubbles to pollinate a pear orchard; 95% of the flowers bore fruit, which was the same success rate as hand-pollinating
mxV5x The first photograph taken on the moon by Neil Armstrong featured a trash bag
jNGPN TIL that the Soviet Union won the 10th Correspondence Chess Olympiad, which started in 1987 and ended in... 1995. East Germany took 3rd.
LQQwP TIL that the CSI:Crime Scene Investigation franchise put out a kit for kids that contained asbestos in the fingerprinting powder. Lead, arsenic, and other toxic chemicals were also found in some kits.