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TIL The first recorded steel cage wrestling match happened between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia June 25th, 1937. The cage was a circular chicken wire structure.

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6E1em TIL that while experimenting on a jet pump project for NASA in his bathroom in 1982, Lonnie Johnson shot a stream of water across the room and thought, "This would make a great gun." The Super Soaker went on to make him some $73 million in royalties.⁠ ⁠
69EDJ TIL that the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that aa defendant's request "give me a lawyer, dog" was too ambiguous to be considered a Miranda request for a lawyer
4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
OoP5g TiL about the December 14th 1944 Palawan massacre where Japanese imperial soldiers lit American soldiers on fire by sounding an air raid siren to lead them to a trench filled with gasoline instead of an air raid shelter. Of the 150 American POWs only 11 survived and escaped to American lines.
ZBpv TIL Queen Victoria survived 8 assassination attempts, 3 of which occurred within 5 weeks of each other, and 1 involving a British army officer who hit her over the head with a cane.