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TIL that the name “Spandex” was chosen because it’s an anagram of “Expands”.

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kObN4 TIL before her career as a well known TV chef Julia Childs worked for the OSS during World War II (a fact only made public after the files were declassified in 2008) where she transcribed Top Secret documents and went on to develop a new shark repellent.
4A7o TIL there is no such thing as a 24 hour flu, you have been the lucky recipient of food poisoning.
dKvQ TIL that the last duel in Canada was between two men who were so terrified of dueling, one fainted and the other was seized by horror. The guns were also loaded with blanks
x6B15 TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al successfully showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes) - mimicing early cellular conditions. Advancing our understanding of how life could have originated.
4Q8J TIL Mickey Mouse will be public domain on January 1, 2024