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TIL Freddy Krueger was named after a guy who bullied Wes Craven when he was a kid

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e0MdE TIL that 79% of bone marrow transplants are basically just more complex blood donations. Only 21% of bone marrow transplants involve sticking a needle into your bones (under anesthesia).
QJ4bd TIL that on April Fool's Day in 1974, a man in Alaska pranked an entire town by setting a bunch of tiles alight in a dormant volcano, creating a smoke plume that caused a lot of commotion and ended up with a US Coast Guard helicopter being sent to investigate.
jN1Dv TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt
R7AWQ TIL David Bowie hated Gary Numan so much to begin with that he had Numan thrown off the billing of a show they were both booked to appear in
Oood6 Good news: they'll explode! Bad news: they might not be the prettiest fireworks ever.