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TIL a Doctor’s tie can transmit sickness between patients because ties hardly ever get washed

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9wy6B TIL it’s cummerbund and not cumberbund
v1RE8 TIL that Lebron James refuses to pay for apps or music and only uses his phone when he's on wifi
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).
9wwop TIL that the American inventor Isaac Newton Lewis—creator of the Lewis Gun used by America and her allies in WWI—turned down more than $1.2 million in royalties for his invention, equivalent to $35.5 million in 2022 terms
mxpYR TIL the German submarine U-530 surrendered to the Argentine Navy on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata, an Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a police report to the effect that the submarine was transporting a officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise.