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TIL before Apple, Steve Wozniak invented a device to make free long distance calls, that he once used to nearly get ahold of the Pope, posing as Henry Kissinger.

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lGrB TIL that The Shawshank Redemption was a box office disappointment only earning $28.3 million in revenue
BrBNx TIL that librarian Megan Rosenbloom, an expert in anthropodermic bibliopegy, can determine if a book is bound in human skin or not. (Proof is in the second paragraph on the site.
loy87 TIL: The pop song "Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men (2000) was a feminist-themed protest against cat-calls.
gMydb TIL of Juan Garrido, an African conquistador who was involved in the conquest of Mexico with Hernán Cortés and was the first recorded farmer of wheat in the Americas
PYRAG TIL that a tornado actually starts off in a horizontal position as a rotating mass of air called a wind shear. This is then 'pulled' upright to a vertical position by warm updrafts of air in a thunderstorm. When these spinning columns make contact with the ground a tornado is formed.