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TIL- IKEA has been offering solar-powered portable shelters for 3 years

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YdRP TIL of NASA’s sound suppression system which soaks the launch pad with 300,000 gallons of water, reducing acoustical levels within the orbiter payload bay to about 142 decibels.
o7L7 TIL Bill Gates told his University professors that he would become a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.
W19N TIL that James Bond originally used a Beretta 418 until a fan of the novels (and small arms expert) wrote to Ian Flemming criticizing it as “a woman’s gun”. When Flemming had Bond switch to his iconic Walther PPK in Dr. No, he wrote the fan into the scene as MI6’s armorer
vPaxK TIL Polly Smith, costume designer for the Muppet Show and Sesame Street also invented the sports bra
x81w TIL that under Islamic Sharia law a raped woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of her rapist