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TIL that in 2012 a wearable computing pioneer was attacked by McDonalds employees for refusing to remove his (permanently attached) digital eyeglasses

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grEQ8 TIL - van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) may have been inspired by Hokusai’s "Great Wave" (1831). Van Gogh was a great admirer of this Japanese print, had written to his brother Theo about it, and both share a similar coloring of rich blues.
p8PmQ TIL During his Presidency, John Quincy Adams planned on funding an expedition to the center of the earth to establish a trade route with mythical “Mole People.”
9wApM TIL that the US, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and the UK are all within 10 percentage points when it comes to obesity rates
yVjGw TIL that archaeologists routinely find edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs - the stuff never spoils, due to extremely low water-content, very low pH, and hydrogen peroxide (made by an enzyme in the bees' stomachs). How Cool!
w8r7 TIL Roald Dahl (author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’)was a real life James Bond who seduced women to gain intelligence during WWII.