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TiL Shift Key's name originated from the typewriter, where one had to press and hold the button to shift up the case to UPPERCASE from lowercase .

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b9Oop TIL that the first vending machine was invented 2000 years ago in Roman Egypt and sold Holy Water. When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever which let some water flow out. A counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve once the coin was tilted off the pan.
l5kG TIL Around 1000 of the world’s approximately 5,000 languages are spoken solely in New Guinea.
Lk48V TIL the 1989 Beastie Boys album "Paul’s Boutique" was created before copyright law for sampling was well established and it would cost at least $20 million to clear the samples if it were released today
JOV TIL that there are more Americans in the Philippines than in the UK.
yVx8 TIL That the all of the water in Great Basin, which covers a large portion of the western US, never flows out.