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TIL firefighters used to dip their beards in water and breathe through the wet hairs clenched between their teeth before breathing apparatuses were invented.

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P17AE TIL that the "City" of "Rancho Cucamonga" in the US State of California; is believed to be named after a ~historically "local" Native American term/phrase which implied the designation of; a "Sandy Place", a "Place of Many Springs", or, of, "The Place of the Light over the Mountain".
nBYY TIL Paranormal Activity was made for just $15,000, but went on to make $190 million. At its test screening, people walked out. Dreamworks thought it was because the movie was terrible—it turned out that people were just terrified.
D10jv TIL after Alois Alzheimer gave the first ever speech describing the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, no one in the audience asked him any questions or made any follow-up comments, because they were all much more excited to hear the next guy on the list give a speech about compulsive masturbation.
vM1K TIL In 1993, Dateline NBC strapped model rocket engines to GM trucks for a televised crash-test so the trucks would explode on impact. After a GM lawsuit, three producers were fired and the reporter demoted.
R75Ll TIL there is an island in Shrewsbury, MA named after rapper Busta Rhymes.