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TIL over 10,000 people paid $2 for a phone app to “zap” their acne. The FTC made the developers withdraw their claims.

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XEkPP TIL about Elinor Otto, born 1919, the "Last Rosie the Riveter", who worked for 50 years building airplanes and was laid off in 2014, at age 93. She's still alive today.
9wLyp TIL that William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, served five English kings, was once held hostage as a child, and later became regent for a young King Henry III. He was also a legendary knight who won over 500 tournaments and joined the Knights Templar on his deathbed.
PYdBJ TIL Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz tried to rat f*ck his whistleblower grandson and stuck him with a four to five hundred thousand legal bill in an attempt to protect his own financial interest in disgraced blood testing company Theranos.
gdKb TIL the welsh word for microwave is popty ping
W7doX TIL at the closing ceremony of the first Winter Olympics in 1924, a prize was awarded for alpinism to Lt Col Edward Strutt, the deputy leader of and on behalf of the British expedition which had attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1922.