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TIL the reverse staple is used as a temporary staple when you need things stapled together, but know they will soon need to be taken apart again.

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7e1L TIL that Devin Gaines earned 5 bachelor degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits/semester and 3 hrs of sleep/night. He drowned in 2007 because he didnt know how to swim.
kkbm TIL: The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson (1812–1880), Premier of Tasmania
Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.
ANm1w TIL that Saddam Hussein considered himself to be Nebuchadnezzar, reincarnated. He spent a lot of money trying to restore Babylon and lived in a gigantic replica Babylonian palace, complete with Babylonian esque carvings depicting himself.
W77LB TIL The National Memorial for Peace and Justice displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing a county in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. The memorial hopes that communities will take their slab and install it.