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TIL Claus von Bülow was the personal assistant of J. Paul Getty in the 1950s and 1960s

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b9ew4 TIL It was comic strip character Dick Tracy's wrist radio that inspired Martin Cooper of Motorola to conceive of the first portable cellular phone in 1973. This led to the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
4XoON TIL cascata delle Marmore (Marmore falls), Italy, is the tallest man-made waterfall in the world at height 165m (541 feet), and it was created by ancient romans almost 2300 years ago
78yZO TIL The most populous administrative division in the world is the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, if it were a country it would be the sixth most populated in the world.
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