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TIL Industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull was hired in 1958 by 3M to design a new bra cup. She ended up designing the N95 respirator.

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oByX7 TIL Robert Wells 3 was murdered in a drive-by shooting. His parents posted his obituary in the local newspaper, detailing the honest details of his life and death, and not having a funeral. Instead, they asked supporters to donate to at-risk youth programs.
AGJg TIL that John Steinbeck once said of the Model T Ford: “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than about the clitoris”
ddYB TIL politicians in ancient Rome kept slaves named “nomenclators”, whose sole job was to remind their masters of the names and pertinent details of all the different people they met.
xVg1k TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need an organ transplantation.
78o8L TIL Harry Connick Jr is 56 but still uses a suffix professionally as his father is still alive at 97. Harry Connick Sr was the district attorney for Orleans Parish in Louisiana for 30 years before retiring 20 years ago.