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TIL that in 2010 Syria banned women from wearing veils in universities

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4Bwa TIL Simon, the world’s first smartphone, was released by IBM in 1994. It cost $899, loaded new apps via external memory cards, and could last sixty minutes before requiring a recharge. IBM sold 50,000 units.
6NxZ TIL DirectX’s original name was ‘The Manhattan Project’ because it was Microsoft’s initiative to destroy Japanese dominance of the gaming industry.
xnL5 TIL Ho Chi Minh worked at a pub in West London in 1914
4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
DQabY TIL In 1988 Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton all lost Album of the year