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TIL A Roman Catholic physician developed the first modern form of birth control.

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rom4 TIL Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (YKK) produces nearly 7 billion zippers a year. Their every stage of the zipper making process is in house i.e. from smelting their own brass and building the zipper-making machines to making the boxes they ship in.
yGoa TIL that cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev has traveled 0.02 seconds into the future. The theory of relativity states that time will slow down for an object as its velocity increases. By orbiting at 27,360 km/h for 747 days aboard the Mir space station, Avdeyev aged 0.02 seconds less than people on Earth.
R5Vm6 TIL on 9/11/01 a guest at the Marriott World Trade Center hotel, located at the base of the towers, awoke to the first plane crashing but went back to bed. He then got up, turned on the news, took a shower, packed his things, and only decided to evacuate when the South Tower collapsed onto the hotel
rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.
ep5o6 TIL that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell had a crack cocaine addiction that led to his dealers staging an intervention on him.