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TIL In the 1920’s Kingsford Charcoal was started by Henry Ford because he hated watching wood scraps from his assembly lines go to waste.

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woZx6 TIL about William Marston, a psychologist who created both Wonder Woman and the polygraph
xVyVo TIL of Edith Garrud, a 20th century suffragette who knew Jujitsu and was one of the first female martial arts instructors in the West. She taught the "Suffragettes Self-Defence Club”, and was an instructor for “the Bodyguard” a 30-women unit that defended fugitive suffragettes and fought the police.
Onge TIL the name of the stretchy glue that holds new credit cards to the paper is called Fugitive Glue.
ADX1l TIL actor Ashton Kutcher took part in the development of software used to identify child sex trade victims, with nearly 6,000 identified to date.
p8NRb TIL Organisms that live around hydrothermal vents do not rely on sunlight and photosynthesis. Instead, archaea, the first living organisms in existence, use a process called chemosynthesis to reduce toxic minerals and chemicals into nutrients.Without them, no multicellular life would exist on Earth.