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TIL in 1965 U.S. Patent was issued for the "Blonsky Device" It was a centrifugal birthing table. A woman in labor was strapped to a high speed spinning table that would "gently force the baby out."
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TIL that the intestines (Goldbeater’s skins) of 250,000-450,000 cows where needed to build one WW1 Zeppelin.
PYloV
TIL that a study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth," is only one sentence long: "So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth."