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TIL about dry water, which is made by mixing silicon dioxide dust with water creating an air-water emulsion which is a powder.

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9YAKQ TIL about Rai Stones, large donut-shaped stones weighing up to 4 tons which were used as currency on the island of Yap. Because it is hard to move the stones, buying something simply involves agreeing the stone changes ownership and 'recording' it in oral history.
16wM7 TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.
dDwWQ TIL Of Titanic Thompson, a prolific hustler and golfer of the early 20th century. One of Thompson's tricks was to play righthanded, win, and offer to play double or nothing lefthanded, he was naturally lefthanded. In his time a professional golfer could earn 30,000$ a year, he earned that in a week.
M774b TIL that the disappearance of D. B. Cooper remains the only unsolved air piracy case in commerical aviation history.
neEl9 TIL: As the Great Depression had struck the country, Brazil couldn't afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. So they loaded a ship with coffee and the delegation of 82 athletes traveled in this ship selling coffee along the way to fund the trip.