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TIL Two Australians invented the electric drill in 1889! Arthur Arnot and William Brain of Melbourne, Australia. Then in 1895 the first portable drill was made by two German brothers.
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TIL in 1943 engineer Richard James accidentally knocked over a tension spring - inspiring him to create the Slinky. By 2000, more than 250 million had been sold.
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TIL that the Standard Kilogram, a cylinder of platinum that used to be the definition of a kilogram, has been mysteriously getting lighter