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

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PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
6YAJ TIL Studies Show That Fat Actually Isn’t All That Bad For You. The War On Fat Was Started By One Researcher Who “Cherry-Picked” His Data To Prove That Fat Is Bad
JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.
6EbxQ TIL Madagascar has a larger population than Australia
R5Mb1 TIL East Pyongyang No.1 Middle School in North Korea has taught a "Mao Zedong class" since 1959, where students learn Chinese language and songs. It has exchange programs with its sister school in Beijing which offers a "Kim Il-sung class"