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TIL the phrase “balls out” has nothing to do with testicles, but rather with early steam engine components.

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JYNb4 TIL that Robert A. Heinlein is credited with popularizing the phrase "pay it forward."
789rZ TIL: John Boyd Dunlop the inventor of the first practical pneumatic tire, first created a tire for his son's tricycle ride; the resulting air-filled tire revolutionized transport.
rNXWw TIL Chris Farley was originally the voice actor of Shrek and almost finished all his lines until his untimely passing in 1997
a84VJ TIL an oil platform called Piper Alpha, located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, exploded and sank on 6 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board.
mEQE TIL that, in the U.S.A., corporate personhood was established in 1819, which means that corporations got to be people before black people did.