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Today I Learned that Billard balls used to explode often because they were made of celluloid.

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p8W4Z TIL a gentleman in the 1940s observed that the burr seeds that stuck to his clothes and his dog’s fur had a tiny hook structure. On closer inspection, he discovered the hooks were more reliable than a zipper. He developed a company popularly known today as Velcro.
kA8B TIL in 1998, there was a Japanese realty show that was about a comedian named Eggplant who lived in a one-room apartment and had to win $10,000 worth of prizes from magazine contests to win the show. All the food he ate and clothes he wore had to be won also. It was a gigantic hit show in Japan.
EPDd TIL a mathemetician worked out a formula for perfect parallel parking
b6yj TIL that every year engineering students hang a VW bug from a bridge in Vancouver
Egmxw TIL back in 2017 a restaurant in West Hollywood, CA called Fat Sal's changed over for 2 days to a "McDowell's Golden Arcs" from Coming to America - serving the Big Mick, Sexual Chocolate Shake and Zmunda fries.