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TIL that Paintball guns are also known as 'paintball markers' because they have been used by forestry personnel to mark trees and ranchers to mark wandering cattle.

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xV8bk TIL The International Chopin Piano Competition has been held every five years since 1955. It is one of the few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a single composer
6W18 TIL That the color of chicken eggs is often times associated with the color of the chickens ear lobes.
oBK4o TIL Obsidian can be made into surgical scalpels by flint knapping, creating an edge only one molecule wide and the edge is so smooth and sharp it can cut between cells.
LkwEd TIL many laugh tracks were made by the Laugh Box machine developed by sound engineer Charles Douglass in 1953.
GAQe5 TIL: Actor, and former WWE superstar Dave Bautista would hid inhalers under wrestling rings, to deal with his asthma, during matches.