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TIL Nokia boots are a thing. Nokia was originally making rubber products.

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MxPK TIL: China used RPGs to disperse rain clouds during the olympics
WZpN TIL: Nikola Tesla was offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison Company’s direct current generators for fifty thousand dollars. After months of work, when Tesla asked for payment Edison refused and said “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor”
mxnnv TIL that there is a criminal called Dr. Ch@os who is currently incarcerated at the supermax prison ADX Florence for causing 28 power failures and hoarding large amounts of cyanide. After 20 years in prison, he was released on July 29th 2019.
GYnb4 TIL After being threatened by the KKK for releasing the R&B track "What a man" in 1968, Linda Lyndell didn't perform again for 35 years, only making a comeback after Salt-N-Pepa sampled the song in their hit "Whatta Man".
rNKN4 TIL that a Souvenir factory new dragon lore from CS:GO sold for more than 15 Rolexes assuming they’re all $12,000