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TIL that Glen Campbell and Alice Cooper were “best of friends.”

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KW5a TIL that the French word for wooden shoe, ‘sabot’ is the probable root of the word sabotage: and refers to the tactic by early Dutch unionists of throwing sabots into the gears of factory or farm machinery, effectively stopping work until the equipment could be repaired.
J1Bl1 TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.
rRax TIL that stars twinkle because of turbulence in the atmosphere. As a result, if you see stars twinkling at a greater rate than normal, a storm front is probably moving in.
rRKOW TIL early Sears catalogs were made smaller than Montgomery Ward catalogs so that neatnik housewives would stack them on top
oQX8 TIL it was illegal in the US to have replaceable bulbs in car headlights until 1983.