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TIL Braun introduced a butane powered curling iron in 1982

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OG77e TIL: There is an infamous 1855 book, "English as She Is Spoke" which a very poor Portuguese to English guidebook which became popular for it's unintentional humor due to the broken English. Examples include, "What do him?", "I have mind to vomit", and "The walls have hearsay."
x6Bvb TIL a student in Germany can shrink and enlarge his pupils on demand
j6NXR TIL That Harold Ross — co-founder and editor of The New Yorker magazine — dropped out of school at 13. He edited every issue of the magazine from the first until his death—a total of 1,399 issues.
M7NZ8 TIL of Assumable Mortgages: A buyer can take over the mortgage (and its locked-in interest rate if applicable)
7eML TIL NASA often shows the movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and asks its new staff to find as many scientific-inaccuracies as they can (there are at least 168).