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TIL of Steve Comisar, who sold a ‘solar-powered clothes dryer’ for $39.99. Customers would then receive a clothesline.

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Xy9P TIL that around one in four doctors experience depression, but are much less likely to receive treatment due to fear they will be punished professionally. The profession also has one of the highest rates of suicide among all professions.
b9KpQ TIL the 1847 NY Rural Cemetery Act authorizing nonprofit commercial graveyards on (then) rural land, and an 1852 law against new burials in Manhattan, have led to Queens containing over 5 million graves within its Cemetery Belt, such that the borough’s “dead population” now doubles its live one.
E1dZP TIL of the Surya Siddhanta, a book written in 4th century CE in India which describes the Earth’s diameter as 8000 miles (7928 by current standards) and the spherical shape of the earth also providing an accurate distance of the Moon from the earth before much before Galileo.
eplj6 TIL that Slovakia also invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, the same day as Nazi Germany.
gMMZX TIL that the invention of Wifi involved a failed experiment by Australian scientists to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle.