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TIL ‘Double Rainbow Guy' Paul Vasquez has died :(

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b9mka TIL that Duct Tape was originally called Duck Tape. In WWII, Johnson & Johnson created a waterproof rubber adhesive tape applied to a durable duck cloth backing for use as waterproof sealing tape on ammunition cases: "Duck Tape". Later it was used to seal air ducts in forced-air heating HVAC systems
6XBm TIL that the Canadian Football League has existed since 1909, and for the first three a university team beat three professionals to get the championship.
AEDg TIL Elmer McCurdy was mummified and used as a stage prop for 26 years before people realized his corpse was a real body
9YalX TIL the 1996 video game "Tomb Raider" had a fan-made patch called "Nude Raider" that made Lara naked. The video game publisher got the site hosting the patch shut down. In the sequel, the developers included a secret code that would allegedly make her naked, but it in fact made Lara explode.
KOMl9 TIL one of Martin Luther King Jr's favorite hymns was Mahalia Jackson's rendition of 'How I got over." She sang it at the March on Washington in 1963 and in moments when he felt discouraged, he'd call her just to hear her sing.