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TIL that the first documented use of fireworks in the UK was in 1486 at Henry VII's wedding, and that Elizabeth I enjoyed fireworks so much that she had a "Fire Master" to oversee royal displays

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XexD TIL after reading newspaper accounts of a family dying after their refrigerator leaked toxic gas into their home, Albert Einstein and a student invented a refrigeration system with no moving parts. Now known as the Einstein Refrigerator, modern refinements may see it soon hit the market.
RW9 TIL Sugar cures the hiccups 19 out of 20 cases
x6Vj1 TIL Reyn Guyer is a game designer whose first hit was Twister. In 1969, he invented "the world's first indoor ball". It was made of polyurethane and named after the foam used by off-roaders to cover their roll-bars: Nerf.
XE0ak TIL, in Danish mythology, there is a group of Ravens called the Valravn that ate a kings heart and gained human integrative and supernatural abilities, which they used to perform malicious acts
6EdMQ TIL that at the height of his consumption, Dennis Hopper was doing three grams of cocaine a day, drinking 28 beers and a half gallon of rum — plus another fifth of rum in case he ran out.