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TIL Duct Tape was used during the Vietnam War to repair helicopter rotor blades.

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rdVW TIL woodlice (aka rolly-polies or pillbugs) are not insects but rather a kind of terrestrial crustacean
1Mnr TIL In 2006, a man in Scotland was jailed for two days for “revving his car in a racist manner”.
78YRZ TIL hearing sudden and loud bursts of noise while falling asleep or waking up is called Exploding Head Syndrome.
78OyP TIL that after their invasion of Vietnam, the Ming took Vietnamese captives back to China and among them, Ho Nguyen Trung, a firearms expert would go on to transform Chinese firearm technology and be venerated by the Chinese as the 'God of Firearms'
epxYb TIL Carrie Underwood makes $1Million EVERY time she sings the opening for Sunday Night Football ($18Million a season). I’d call that a marketing “loss leader” and another insult to the hard working viewers.