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TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.

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8a10P TIL that the Kodak company manufactured hand grenades in the later years of WWII, and they were even used in the invasion of Normandy. The stock remaining after WWII was ordered to be destroyed because the grenades would explode prematurely, injuring American soldiers.
7KQP TIL: That 70% of Iran’s science and engineering students are women and that its scientific progress is reported to be the fastest in the world.
Y8XW TIL: This guy (Jason Lewis) became the 1st person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled, & inline skated 5 continents, & kayaked, swam, rowed, & pedalled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete, the 46,505-mile journey.
n8Ko TIL Humphrey Bogarts last words were “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
OG5BY TIL this Solar Photovoltaic module was made from silicon in 1955 by Bell Labs scientists and is still functional today.