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TIL That vacuuming toner dust can cause an explosion from static discharge buildup igniting the toner dust

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BgmPD TIL that Archie Comics Jughead Jones' iconic "crown" is actually a style of hat known as a whoopee cap. Made of a fedora with the brim cut and folded upwards, it was a style of hat popular in the mid-20th century. Youths often decorated their caps with buttons or bottlecaps, as seen in Jughead's cap
e8En TIL there were only 38 U.S. states when Nintendo was founded
0dOm5 TIL in 1916, Hawaiian music outsold all other genres in America.
BodL TIL when Yvonne Brill, the inventor of the electrothermal hydrazine thruster for rocket propulsion, died, the first line of her New York Times obituary read, “She made a mean beef stroganoff”
AkmB TIL In 1999, it snowed so much in Toronto that the army was called to shovel the city out.