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TIL Cold showers are more beneficial than hot showers.

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ADmwg TIL that Charles Babbage, known for inventing the first mechanical computer, was also the inventor of the cow-catcher.
WkLrY TIL when the First World War began, it was compulsory for all British officers to have a moustache. Poignantly, that edict was revoked in October 1916, because the new recruits were so young that some could not rustle up more than a thin, mousey streak.
d80wd Today I learned that Swingline didn't make red staplers until Mike Judge made them famous in the movie Office Space
Bg0ND TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongoloidism" due to patients' thin eye shape and shorter stature. Now known as Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
M7Qk8 TIL the CIA has it's own museum which is closed to members of the public. The exhibitions include Saddam Hussein's leather jacket and the gun found with Osama Bin Laden when he was killed.