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TIL that famous ocean explorer, capitan of 'Capypso' Jacques Cousteau had invented the aqualung in 1943.

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p4xG TIL Putting Scotch Tape on Frosted Glass Makes the Glass Transparent
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d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.
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LrPV TIL that parts of the Eye of Horus symbol were used by Ancient Egyptians to represent numerical fractions.