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ND7N TIL that France was still executing people by guillotine when Pac Man was introduced
5E59 TIL president James Madison was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.
X00mk TIL NY State prosecuted a fake architect named "Newman," and called the investigation "Operation Vandelay Industries," based on two Seinfeld characters, including fake architect George Costanza, aka "Art Vandelay."
l7GKr TIL in 1907, chemist Leo Baekeland accidentally overheated a mixture of chemicals while trying to find a substitute for shellac. Instead, he created Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, which transformed manufacturing and paved the way for the modern plastics and polymer industry.
6mmw TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary lists words with the suffix ’-ize’ (e.g., realize, organize) over the more popular British English ’-ise’, stating it to be both phonetic and closer to its Greek origin