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TIL “Fordite,” also known as Detroit agate, is old automobile paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished. It is now used by many artists in jewelry-making.

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JJv4 TIL Bill Watterson, the author of the cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbs, refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".
Oae4 TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.
MeynW TIL about Air Canada Flight 759, which erroneously almost landed on a packed taxiway at San Francisco International Airport. It missed one of the planes by 14 feet (4.3m). If it had crashed, it would have been the worst air disaster ever.
XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more