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TIL one of the earliest and most iconic Nike shoe tread, the “waffle sole” was designed literally by its inventor, Bill Bowerman, pouring rubber into his wife’s Belgian waffle iron.

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xwD7 TIL each agency of the US government has put a price on a human life. As of 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a human life at $9.1 million. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration put it at $7.9 million — and the Department of Transportation figure was around $6 million.
GLY5 TIL, a lieutenant in the Nazi army, Albert Battel, refused to round up Jews and haul them to the Belzec extermination camp. Instead he brought them to a local military barracks for protection. Battel was later discharged in 1944 and settled in West Germany.
OG5PR TIL France’s involvement in the American Revolution left the country on the verge of bankruptcy, and led to increase in taxation, and thus French Revolution
QJ9yE TIL Research shows that cats that are provided with empty boxes were more interactive, friendly and comfortable with the people around them as compared to those cats that did not have a box to snuggle in. So, it can be said that cats derive comfort and security from boxes.
AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.