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TIL that the pacemaker, fridges, WiFi and Google Maps are all Australian inventions.

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DDdV TIL scientists in Israel planted 2000 years old seeds from an extinct date palm species and successfully grew a sapling
Z8B1D TIL Adaptive headlights are not allowed in the US, but will be in the next 2 years.
JY8mv TIL The Beatles were a strong influence in American civil rights, refusing to play for segregated audiences and even put it in their contract. They refused to play at the Gator Bowl in FL in 1964 until the desegregated the audience.
6aBY TIL in 2016, a woman bought a $10 scratch-off ticket to show her husband that lottery tickets are a waste of money. The ticket turned out to be worth $1 million.
OoXa4 TIL that although we think of electric vehicles as being a very modern technology, they actually pre-date internal combustion engines and were popular between the 1880s and 1920s.