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TIL that before Ian Fleming used "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for his book about a magic car, the original phrase referred to the permission slip soldiers needed to leave the barracks to visit local brothels during WWI.

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x6NKg TIL a new measurement type – Smoots
XYZk TIL that actress Hedy Lamarr was also a prolific inventor. One of her inventions allowed for guided torpedoes in WWII. But because the Navy wasn’t receptive to ideas coming outside the military, it wasn’t implemented during the war. Her idea went to later be basis for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, & CDMA.
rR7py TIL that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never watched the Pilot Episode of Seinfeld due to her not being aware of its existence before she was cast as Elaine
xVJwk TIL that females of many mammal species have a bone in their clitoris called 'the baubellum or os clitoridis'
KOvn6 TIL that complex numbers in quantum mechanics are not auxiliary, but rather a necessity in order to avoid contradiction.