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TIL that anyone can start an online business about anything

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v166L TIL Martin Couney, an owner of a freak show in the early 1900's invented an incubator to exhibit premature babies, in doing so saved thousands of lives and marked the start of advanced prenatal care for preemies.
EbZX TIL: FDR changed the date of Thanksgiving to make the Christmas shopping season longer.
GA4QJ TIL that in 2003 Hideo Kojima designed a Game Boy Advance game with a light sensor built into the cartridge. The player's in-game weapon is charged by taking the game outside and playing it in natural sunlight, and game mechanics change when it's dark out in your area
NX59Q TIL - All Earth tides originate in the southern oceans, the only place on Earth where a circumventing wave resulting from the tidal force of the Moon can travel with no restrictions from land barriers.
gmBD TIL William Banning (father of a soldier who was killed in the Korean war) sent his son’s purple heart, and an angry letter to Harry Truman, blaming him for his son’s death. Both items were found in Truman’s desk after he died 20 years later.