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TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”

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R79o4 TIL that tally sticks were used for hundreds of years to record financial transactions. When workmen were ordered to dispose of old sticks they accidentally burned down the Palace of Westminster.
R7YQl TIL of Cooperative housing or Borettslag where instead of a landlord, the property is built and owned by a co-operative association which is owned by the tenants. Instead of paying rent to a landlord, you pay back on the communal debt.
69RNm TIL a man called Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
K0Qa TIL famous gangster Johnny Stompanato stormed onto a movie set in the UK and pointed a gun at actor Sean Connery due to jealousy involved in Stompanato’s affair with Lana Turner, only to have Connery take the gun from him and force him from the movie set.
P1NKG TIL about Natalie Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old lukemia patient who had her liver transplant denied by Cigna