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TIL of Steve Comisar: a man who sold "solar powered clothes dryers" for $49.95 in national magazines. Unsuspecting customers would receive a length of clothes line.

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Lk9k9 TIL: The anatomy of the clitoris was not determined until 1998
EJaW TIL India and China are the only Nuclear weapons capable states with a “No First Use” policy for nuclear Weapons
ZByp TIL the Pentagon was constructed with twice the number of bathrooms needed for the number of employees because segregated Virginia at the time required separate facilities for “white” and “colored” persons.
R7wn7 TIL about Harry Wesley Coover Jr who discovered super glue (cyanoacrylate) in 1942. He ignored it as being too sticky for what he needed. He then rediscovered it in 1956 while at Eastman Kodak who put it into production. It gained notoriety in the Vietnam War as a way to close battlefield wounds.
9Yp8X TIL that Nabi Tajima is curretly the oldest living person in the world — and the last surviving person born in the 19th century