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Today I learned Three Stooges made a hairspray commercial!

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4Vv5 TIL North Korea has statues that are filled with dynamite that explode and act like “tank barriers” upon invasion
woDMo TIL that the Basilica, a cannon used to besiege Constantinople, was so powerful that its recoil killed its own operators
LQQDZ TIL when a defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury and court, rather than refute the prosecution case, this is known as the 'Chewbacca defense'.
oR547 TIL the word "debugging" originated when Grace Hopper found a literal moth causing a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 and taped it into her logbook
xVQBb TIL the value of the materials mined in North America that come specifically from extraterrestrial impacts totals over $5 billion per year