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TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM because it was made for a factory worker who needed to wake up early.

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eOrJ TIL That most Victoria’s Secret models are either an A or B cup.
m1XYY TIL The chocolate bar Milky Way is called Mars Bar by the non-US world, and what the US calls Three Musketeers is called Milky Way everywhere else
OGZAL TIL that the jerrycan was invented in Nazi Germany. Jerry, also often phrased as Gerry, was used by the allies when referring to German soldiers. So jerrycan means something like “German can”.
j0jv TIL All of the chainmail in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy were made by hand, link by link.
mxOGo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most politically active women of the 20th Century. She campaigned civil rights in the early 1930’s, regularly spoke on behalf of her husband and pressed the US to join the United Nations. She eventually remodeled the meaning of ‘First Lady’.