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TIL The man who invented the technology Thermos used to keep liquids hot or cold never patented his invention. Despite the vast commercial success of his invention within his own lifetime, he died having never profited from it at all.

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OgAa TIL When you tell someone a goal or a thing you’re planning on doing, it chemically satisfies your brain in a manner that’s similar to having actually completed the goal.
E1wO0 TIL that before he was killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand supported idea of reforming his empire into Triple monarchy by giving Slavic peoples equal representation in the empire
awab0 TIL about the solar storm of 2012, where a wave of charged plasma particles ejected from the sun narrowly missed Earth. Had it hit, the geomagnetic disturbance would have caused global damage to electronic systems with costs estimated in the trillions
XEwbE TIL a woman survived a gunshot to the head when her hair weave stopped the bullet.
0wLby TIL experts believe that the elephants that live in Sri Lanka are the progeny of elephants that swam across from Southern India across the sea in search of food and water.