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TIL That Ulysses S. Grant Came Up With Several Inventions Including An Iteration Of The Modern Flashlight

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EgV5V TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days afloat in the Pacific Ocean aboard an 8' square wooden raft. When rescued and told that no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply answered, "I hope no one will ever have to break that record."
awnDM TIL there is an organisation that believes in voluntary human extinction to solve the worlds problems.
ANMMa TIL of the Miracle of 1511, in which hundreds of (often sexy) snowmen and snowomen were made as a form of protest against the wealthy
d5bE TIL on Black Friday 2013, Cards Against Humanity had an “Anti-Sale” with increased prices, and still had a sales spike and maintained its best-selling status on Amazon.
pYOxZ Today I learned of the voiceless labial–velar implosive, the rarest sound to appear in any language. The sound, described as pronouncing a k and p at the same time while sucking in air instead of pushing it out, is found only in the Central dialect of the Igbo language.