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TIL the mathematics that makes WiFi possible was developed by a team of physicists searching for tiny black holes.

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woyP6 TIL of the mummy of Takabuti, a young ancient Egyptian woman who died from an axe blow to her back. A study of the proteins in her leg muscles allowed researchers to hypothesise that she had been running for some time before she was killed.
ePMk TIL 99-cent pricing was invented as a way to keep clerks honest. Instead of pocketing a bill, they had to open the cash register to get a penny, and the register would record the sale. It’s not just to trick customers
Bgljk TIL a riot erupted in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1838 over a snowball fight between college students and tradesmen that started with no malintent only to devolve into violence once the students damaged property and settled on chucking rocks at lawmen when they intervened.
VB5x8 TIL that during WWII, B.F. Skinner’s Project Pigeon trained homing pigeons as missile pilots. Trained to peck a target image on a screen in a missile’s nose cone, their pecks steered the fins to guide bombs toward enemy ships amid battle chaos until radar guidance replaced the project.
x61DD TIL that there is a 2 euro coin dedicated to Asterix