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TIL that Planet Aid takes your clothing donations and sells them directly to overseas companies. They do not donate any items for free.

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neMbr TIL that 3D glasses were invented in 1838 by Charles Wheatstone.
KOkJ4 TIL about Operation Sea-Spray, where in September 1950 a U.S. Navy ship spent a week spraying bacteria into the air about two miles off the northern California coast. The secret project's goal was to determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack.
bQj TIL that four fans on low speed will produce more cooling than one set on high and still use a lot less energy.
x6Pk1 TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space
neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.