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TIL that along with making AK-47s, Kalashnikov is now starting to make electric cars

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byr7 TIL if you are an alcoholic at an airport, and feel tempted to head to one of the bars, instead have “Bill W.” paged over the loudspeaker. This is an AA code known by its members; if another AA member hears the page, he/she will come meet you and help you stay away from the bar.
x7mo TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906) when he showed electrons were particles. His son won it in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
9Bk7 TIL that in 2013 a suicidal man was stopped from jumping off a bridge by offering him Pizza
6ED8Z TIL gossiping women or those who were accused of witchcraft were made to wear an iron muzzle in medival England.
MeQ8K TIL 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan (the song famously used for the ASPCA animal cruelty PSA's) is actually about the fatal overdose of Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin.