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TIL that the TV show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was chosen by therapists as the best show to help schizophrenics learn social skills

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Okkg TIL when when Android was unveiled in 2007, Nokia was quoted as saying “we don’t see this as a threat,” and a member of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile team stated “I don’t understand the impact that they are going to have.”
1Ar4 TIL Peacock feathers are actually brown, but have microscopic structures that interfere with light that make the bright iridescence.
0wAMA TIL that Ebbie Tolbert was born in around 1807 and spent over 50 years as a slave. She gained her freedom at age 56. And lived long enough that at age 113 she walked to the St Louis polling station and registered to vote.
Lk6B9 TIL in 1987 someone wearing a Max Headroom mask interrupted 2 TV broadcasts in Chicago. The FBI investigation was never solved.
wLMlP TIL Michelangelo depicted a perfect anatomical cross section of the human brain in the "God Creating Adam" painting, as well as the painting "The Separation of Light from Darkness," within God’s chest and throat, researchers have found a precise depiction of the human spinal cord and brain stem.