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TIL That Churchill had Silent Typewriters in his Bunker Because he Insisted on a ‘Quiet Working Environment’

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kJPed TIL the pearlfish can live inside a sea cucumber's anus when it dilates to breathe. They also eat the gonads, along with other organs. Sometimes 5 or more can be in one sea cucumber.
ep49D TIL An Australian garment manufacturer was established in the 1940s which offered a lifelong guarantee on their woolen clothes, including free alterations if you put on weight or went on a diet.
daQr TIL: Syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany, the “Italian disease” in France, the “Spanish disease” by the Dutch, the “Polish disease” by Russians, and the Turks called it the “Christian disease.”
gM7wW TIL Freeman Freeman Dyson was incapable of speaking a dull sentence. For more than 60 years, he was one of the world’s most accomplished living mathematical physicists.By the time he was 29, he had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society.