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TIL that Thomas Edison invented a motorized “stencil-pen” which was directly adapted into the very first tattoo gun.

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nWKNY TIL of Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady. Her family helped to keep London running on time by traveling to the Greenwich observatory every day and then charging businesses and individuals a subscription to synchronize their watch and clocks to GMT. The service lasted from 1836 to 1940.
Wk0l9 TIL that in 2004 a tour bus carrying the Dave Matthews Band through Chicago drove over a bridge and dumped 800 lbs of human waste into the river below, splashing feces and urine onto tourists who were on a sightseeing cruise underneath the bridge.
xVE11 TIL that contrary to popular belief, the vast majority born in California remain in California rather than moving to other States. California actually has one of the highest retention rates for native born citizens in the country.
9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot
YpvXP TIL bees perform a math dance to communicate the direction and distance to flowers, pollen, etc.