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TIL Paul Revere was a master silversmith

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kO6W TIL: Pootie tang was written and directed by Louis CK.
d80y8 TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.
KOBpw TIL 18 and 19 year olds are technically teenagers
AVVn TIL a 73 year old base jumper died after intentionally setting his parachute on fire
X09RQ TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.