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TIL that the first webcam was invented to check if a coffee pot was full. Cambridge scientists basically said, ‘Why walk 20 steps when we can invent new technology instead?’

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LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award
woLvP TIL that Rwanda is the safest country in Africa, despite notoriously known having a genocide 20 years ago. Rwanda is even among the safest countries in the world and even safer than Denmark, Finland and Norway
Yp0j7 TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors
b6DgE TIL of Hassan Diab who was convicted of bombing a Paris Synagogue which killed four people and is currently teaching a class called "Social Justice in Action" at Carleton University in Canada
ovyE TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of “Winnie the Pooh,” calls children who are in hospital to talk to them in character