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TIL ring pulls on cans are patented. Their use is to hold straws in place.

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j6O9a TIL that the decibel scale is logarithmic. Sound at 100dB is 100x the physical intensity of sound at 80dB (the ceiling of sound volume without hearing loss), which is why small increases in dB causes such rapid hearing damage.
wLwMo TIL that a major reason Los Angeles grew to be so huge was that they controlled the entire area’s water supply- the only way surrounding towns could get water was to annex themselves to LA.
8A6G TIL:In the year 2012, over 160 baby girls in the U.S. were named “Khaleesi”
YpJnW TIL of Vladimir Pokhilko, the co-creator of Tetris. A Russian academic and clinical psychologist, he helped shaped the final version of the game with Alexey Pajitnov. He was in financial ruin later in life and killed his family and himself in 1998.
vOer TIL the eastern part of Laos was so heavily bombed that most people can supplement their income by collecting scrap metal 40 years later, some completely rely on it