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TIL that the inventor of the frisbee, Ed Hendrick, was cremated and had his ashes turned into frisbees.

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NXvVJ TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names
BQEk TIL that Nicolas Flamel, said in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to have been 665 years old and to have created the stone, actually existed, wrote about alchemical secrets, and would have been ~665 years old when the book had been written if he did not die.
LQvkP TIL chainsaws were invented in the late 1700s for assisting in childbirth (cutting through the woman's pelvis if the baby got stuck).
x6Kvw TIL Barry Manilow wrote and performed the iconic ad jingles "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there", and "I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!" (for which he adopted a child like voice) and McDonald's "you deserve a break today"
a8pgL TIL the name for “fear of cats” is “ailurophobia” and “felinophobia.” Why? Because “airluros” was what Greeks called Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess.