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TIL: The electric vibrator was first used in 1878, and began to be marketed for home use (without any sexual connotations) in magazines from around 1900, along with other electrical household goods.

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l7WOA TIL that Dmitri Mendeleev, who is credited with creating the Periodic Table of Elements was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 9 times but never won. His awarding was blocked each time by the 1903 winner, Svante Arrhenius, who held a grudge against Mendeleev for criticizing one of his papers.
QJM8L TIL the accent that most actors had in films from the 30's and 40's (i.e. Jimmy Stewart from It's a Wonderful Life) was known as "Transatlantic" and nobody ever actually spoke that way.
ADZOn TIL that the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus is so infectious that one man in Hong Kong infected 183 people in 8 appartment buildings with one horriffic bowel movement, causing a plume of aerosolised faeces to circulate through the ventiltion system and outside on the wind.
QJ4EE TIL Charles Kushner plead guilty to witness tampering for hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister
0wWdp TIL The mysterious winner of a $560 million lottery ticket who fought to keep her identity a secret was allowed to stay anonymous, a judge ruled in March. The woman’s lawyers argued that she is part of a group that “has historically been victimized by the unscrupulous”.