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TIL that sliced bread was first marketed as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”

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8ekk8 TIL the niqab is the Muslim headdress with only the eyes visible whereas the burqa has netting over the eyes so not even they are visible.
XE9Vk TIL the earliest home TV recording was discovered in 1996. Done in London in 1933 (when only a few thousand 30-line TVs existed) using a phonograph recorder to record the audible TV signal transmitted after the regular BBC radio broadcast ended at 11 PM. It was 4 minutes of dancing girls.
BrLvD TIL of the Voyager Golden Record, which was launched with Voyager 1 and designed to represent Earth. It includes the sound of whales, Beethoven's compositions, a printed president from President Carter, a woman's brainwaves while thinking about love, the sound of waves crashing, among other sounds.
Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.
e1m6 TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.