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TIL Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher uterine cancer risk

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0wP0y TIL that the internals of NASA's Apollo computer were handwoven like a quilt by women at a Raytheon factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. They'd sit in special rooms and use long needles with wire attached to them, carefully weaving the wiring that was to be the computers' programming.
9WGQ TIL When Peter Falk was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”.
EgO8X TIL in Germany, having sex with someone who says no repeatedly was legal until 2016. It was only punished as rape if violence was threatened or used, or the victim physically tried to fight off the rapist.
jADn TIL that North Korea has officially changed from a communist run system of government to the Monarchy system
l7gpr TIL that during the Great Depression wealthy elites approached a former Marines Major General Smedley Butler and tried to stage a coup in the U.S., but he refused and revealed the plot.