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TIL Kodak had weapons grade uranium in their Rochester Labs until 2007

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R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
xV6PD TIL the average distance between any two of Facebook's 1.6 billion users is 4.57 steps of "friend of a friend"
pYABO TIL the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in Scotland and the UK) was made by James Robertson, an Edinburgh botanist, in 1771.
4EpJ TIL Mayhem is an actual crime and means the intentional maiming of another person.
xV85w TIL if in 2001 you bought $399 in Apple stock instead of buying the original iPod, today that stock would be worth $65,000