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TIL 3M engineers inadvertently built a force field under a huge roll of fast moving tape strong enough to act like an impenetrable wall.

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9XGm TIL Stan Lee’s use of alliterative names in his comics (e.g., Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Matt Murdock, etc.) was due to his poor memory. He thought that using names that started with the same letter would help him remember the character’s whole name.
ne4VW TIL the US government invested $90,000 promoting Vidalia onions as part of a promotion with Shrek (with tax payer money)
8ajX TIL up until 1981 Swiss children were sent to prisons for social rehabilitation, abused, raped, beaten and taken away from parents to work on farm at the ages of 4-6. They were called Contract kids
Y7PjZ TIL Radio stations refused to play Cher's first single because they thought her low voice was a gay man singing a love song about the Beatles' Ringo Starr
WkBdY TIL that the coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, is also the largest hermit crab species.