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TIL Slip 'n Slides are for ages 5 to 12, one teenager and seven adults had become paralyzed or received neck injuries before they were taken of the market but reappearing in the 2000's with the age restricted warning label.

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4XalN TIL about the game "Conkers," a traditional English childhood game using chestnuts
GAGvN TIL that in Rosario, Argentina, the home city of Lionel Messi, people are banned from naming their children ‘Messi’
M7J1B TIL that there is an impact crater over 25 miles in diameter buried beneath Chesapeake Bay which was revealed in 1993 from oil drilling data, and that prior to impact many, many moons ago, Richmond, VA was covered in thick tropical rainforest
nDXo TIL Sir James Milne Wilson achieved the extremely rare feat of being both born on 29 February and dying on 29 February.
kQ8W TIL in July 2013, Thailand began planting millions of trees by dropping “seed bombs.” The five-year pilot project utilizes aerial reforestation to boost forest regeneration by 2017.