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TIL that Duck Tape (duct tape, 100mph tape, speed tape, etc.) was originally invented to seal ammo boxes in WWII

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KYjRw TIL about Anne Green, who was sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of her stillborn child, revived back to life by blowing smoke up her butt and placing her in bed with another woman, recovered completely, and was pardoned.
ZOno TIL Japanese researchers have created a fire-alarm for the deaf. It’s a gadget that emits a wasabi mist which will wake the endangered person and get them out of the building alive!
ADNZ7 TIL historians are unsure why New York is the Empire State.
7WKM TIL that the Dutch have a word, “swaffelen,” or, as it was told to me, “zwaffelen,” for the act of smacking one’s penis repeatedly against an object.
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