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TIL the Last words of the inventor of Air Conditioner on his death bed were “It’ll be a Cold Day in Hell!”

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M7yjm TIL Pop-Tarts were originally called “Fruit Scones,” but Kellogg’s changed their name to reference the Pop art movement of the time, made famous by artists like Andy Warhol.
b6xp TIL Rob Zombie was a production assistant on PeeWee’s Playhouse…
oEeL TIL Haldane suffered perforated eardrums in his decompression chamber experiments upon which he stated, “the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.”
Wk019 TIL that in 2014, astronomers discovered an Unusual Supernova that has been continually exploding since the 1950's. No theory exists that explains why this supernova eruption has lasted hundreds of times longer than typical supernovae eruptions, which usually last about 100 days.
lL0B TIL In the early nineties, actor Ving Rhames (aka Marcellus Wallace) met a homeless man who turned out to be his older brother who had been lost to his family since Vietnam