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wogAY Til that most Washing Machines have a filter that should ideally be cleaned once a month.
69roQ Til that most Washing Machines have a filter that should ideally be cleaned out once a month.
OGX9a TIL that the phenomenon where a landline phone's cord forms a kink and gets twisted in the opposite direction of the rest of the cord is called "tendril perversion"
X0YPk TIL that, immediately after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an order came down from the Secretary of the Navy to destroy all personal logs associated with the use of the presidential yacht USS Sequoia during the Kennedy Administration.
VBrV0 TIL that actor Joe Spinell was hired to play a hitman in The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola liked him so much that he hired him on as a day player for 6 months of shooting. He wound up being the second highest paid actor in the film after Marlon Brando
epvW6 TIL One of the few recorded deaths resulting from a professional tennis match was a line judge that got hit in the groin by a serve. It knocked him backward out of his chair, hitting his head on the court. After that, line judges were no longer allowed to sit during play
P1VWg TIL the first known surviving nonuplets (9 children) were born in Morocco in 2021.
8eYKG TIL recording sound on magnetic wires was used before magnetic tapes in the early 1900s, and use of magnetic wires persisted into the 1960s for recorders designed for stealth use, including one with a microphone disguised as a wristwatch
l7geK TIL that in 2003 Iraqi Insurgents attempted to shoot down a European Air Transport Airbus A300 cargo plane flying from Baghdad to Bahrain, but ultimately failed when the plane was able to return to Baghdad and land with severe damage. The firing of the missle was all caught on camera!
NXOnb TIL only one Navy ship in active duty have sank an enemy ship: USS Constitution. (also the oldest active Navy ship)
rNMBd TIL in 2014 a Dutch woman was ID'd as one of the babies born in prison and kidnapped during Argentina’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983
BgGKy TIL Coin reeded edges were originally introduced to prevent coin clipping/ to stop shaving bits off