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TIL a vietnamese ex-pat, that escaped before the fall of Saigon, went on to have over 125 patents. Including Bounce, Febreze and Downey Premium Care…

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oxJL TIL that Izzy Einstein, an American prohibition-era federal agent, found booze within 35 seconds of his arrival in New Orleans
b64e0 TIL: People used to perform pregnancy tests by injecting urine into a frog. If the frog is female and has eggs at near its rear end after 12 hours then the woman is pregnant. If the frog is male and produces sperm, then the woman is pregnant.
GYPNQ TIL An Owls eyes can hardly rotate in their sockets, which is why they can swivel their heads almost 270 degrees
56mQ TIL in 1963, a Turkish man knocked down a wall in his basement, revealing a secret room which led to an underground tunnel that took him to the ancient city of Derinkuyu
1apX4 TIL that if a man pees on a pregnancy test and it comes up positive, he may have testicular cancer.