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TIL Originally the past participle was hoist and not hoisted as in "he was hoist with his own petard"

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rRMJe TIL that the TV show Lost, which was about a plane crash, used pieces of wreckage from the plane in making the show's score.
deAr TIL that the most accepted theory on how AIDS was first transmitted to humans is that a Bantu hunter, while processing a newly killed, and infected, chimpanzee, got cut himself and got the animal’s blood into his body.
nWBk7 TIL In 1989, when HDTV first came onto the Japanese market, the cost of an HDTV and HDTV Receiver which was required to pick up HD satellite television signals was $12,800 or $32,160 in 2024 money.
J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
9YdYM TIL Young dolphins were seen carefully manipulating a certain puffer-fish to release nerve toxins in order to get 'high'.