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TIL the Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first mobile phone with dial-up internet

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Yko7 TIL that if you pour cold water into a person’s ear, their eyes will move in direction of the opposite ear, if you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called ‘caloric stimulation’.
OGP1Y TIL In 1971 Margaret Thatcher removed free milk for school children over the age of 7 in the UK, earning the nickname "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".
lkkV TIL: Charlie Chaplin’s grandaughter is Oona Chaplin, famous for playing Rob Stark’s pregnant wife that is slaughtered in the Red Wedding on Game of Thrones.
pY9aN TIL that the longest professional tennis match was 11 hours and 5 minutes.
N7dOE TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968