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TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926: ¨we shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but... we shall see and hear one another as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket¨

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QJP66 TIL in 2016 Graeme Wallace, a packing manager at BrewDog, added "Mother F***r Day" to the expiration date of 200,000 beer cans after his bosses told him to "be more punk". The brewery had to pay for the recall of all unsold ones, but Wallace became Employee of the Month.
epllJ TIL there were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand
PYd5O TIL that it is safe to eat raw eggs in Japan due to their strict control of processes involved in egg production.
6dMw TIL that in 1908 the Russian team turned up 12 days late to the Olympics because they had yet to start using the Gregorian calendar.
xarb TIL Homes in Israel are required by law to have a security room built to resist projectiles and chemical weapons