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TIL Manute Bol may have invented the phrase "My Bad"

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vPXlD TIL that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia.
JjV TIL One of Hawaii’s five active volcanoes, Kilauea, has been continuously spewing lava since 1983. It is the longest-lived volcanic eruption anywhere on Earth.
rN4Qx TIL that the first use of an external defibrillator was on a 14-year-old boy in 1947. These early defibrillators used alternating current that was transformed from 110–240 volts available in the line, up to between 300 and 1000 volts, to the exposed heart by way of "paddle" type electrodes.