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TIL Sears used to sell entire houses in a ‘Do It Yourselves’ kit!

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5JMD TIL Russia trained and deployed about 40,000 anti tank dogs in WW2. The dogs were loaded up with explosives and trained to run under tanks where they would be detonated. Many dogs got scared, returned to their own trenches, and killed their Russian trainers.
LQELZ TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
xeng TIL The vibrator was the fifth domestic product to be electrified and became so a decade before the vacuum and Iron
a8WZJ TIL that the first digital watch debuted in 1972 and was manufactured by the Hamilton Watch Company.