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TIL that people used to clean their clothes with gasoline. Requiring PSA’s warning people against it.

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QJgaM TIL the Brown Recluse Spider is immune to Insecticides. Instead it causes them to become drunk and actually increases their likelihood of biting someone in their stupor.
arKA TIL the actor who played “Bane” Tom Hardy is a former drug and alcohol addict who now helps people that were once in his shoes.
78Qg7 TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657.
8ekxG TIL that the Oiseau Canari- the first French built and crewed plane to cross the Atlantic- carried an American stowaway
Z81EY TIL that Steve Jobs was in line to be awarded as Time Magazine's person of the year for 1982 but they decided to give it to a machine after he gave interviews denying paternity of his own daughter and disparaging the mother. The daughter went on to write a book that details how badly he treated her.