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TIL Monty Python is the reason junk mail is called spam.
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TIL in 1961 the US accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a small town in North Carolina. It was 1 low voltage switch away from actually detonating.
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TIL After a probation violation, Robert Downey Jr assembled the exact same “Dream Team” of Lawyers that defended OJ Simpson. He lost, and served 3 years in prison.
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TIL in 1970 cannabis was placed in Schedule-1 category of controlled drugs “Temporarily” while the Nixon Administration awaited the Shafer Report, which ended up calling for the immediate end to cannabis prohibition.
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TIL that Gore-Tex was discovered as attempt to reduce cable isolation costs
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TIL about a Confederate sabotage device called a coal torpedo, which was a bomb designed to look like a lump of coal and meant to cause a steam ship's boiler to explode