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TIL that the balloon was invented by Michael Faraday

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rRmDM TIL Alberta is the only place in the world where you are legally allowed to throw coins at strippers
R5aV6 TIL about L-8, a Navy blimp whose crew mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific in 1942, before crashing into a suburb of San Francisco. L-8 was repaired and later became the Goodyear blimp.
RDw6 TIL German shepherds where renamed to “Alsatian Wolf Dog” after World War I due to the anti-German sentiment of the era.
pYGDZ TIL about Matthew Hopkins, believed responsible for the executions of 100+ “witches” in 1644–1646
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