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TIL that the cardboard sleeve used to insulate hot coffee cups was originally called a Java Jacket by its inventor, Jay Sorenson, when he started selling them out of the trunk of his car in Seattle in 1991.

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OoLVR Today I learned that the cloudy vapor that appears when liquid nitrogen is exposed to the air is condensed moisture, not the gas itself. The gas actually causing the condensation and freezing is completely invisible.
R5V88 TIL the first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia took place on October 16, 1846, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Morton administered ether to a patient undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from his neck, rendering the patient unconscious and insensitive to pain.
ekd4 TIL that in 1913 $20.00 had the buying power of $481.50 today.
EQdo TIL a Tortoise that died in Steve Irwin’s zoo at the age of 175, was once owned by Charles Darwin
nOR7 TIL that the parody national anthem or Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played in its entirety for a Kazakh gold medalist during the 2012 Olympics