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TIL that Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and is the only woman to win DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement

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v1GGK TIL that the BBC paid Pink Floyd to jam out in the background LIVE as the Apollo Astronauts landed in 1969.
GYNyG TIL Andy Dick gave Phil Hartman's wife cocaine at a Christmas party, causing her to relapse. Five months later, she killed Hartman in a cocaine-fueled rage.
A7Jn TIL that Groom Kidnapping is a phenomenon in some parts of India wherein eligible bachelors are abducted by the bride’s family and later forcefully married, to avoid heavy dowry costs.
7bdL TIL the United States is obliged to go to war for 67 different countries should the situation arise, thanks to decades of complicated treaties.
7rWLb TIL a man ran naked through Anchorage, Alaska, naked, climbed up a 30-foot flagpole, jumped off and died. 29-years later, he has still not been identified.