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TIL Spacesbetweenwordsarearelativelyrecentdevelopmentinthehistoryofwrittenlanguage

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ken5 TIL: “Gatorade is directly linked to to impaired neurological development, reduced fertility, early onset of puberty and altered thyroid hormones.”
Y7BAB TIL Queen Elizabeth I required 600 horse carts to carry everything she needed for her summer excursions to the countryside. She’d stay with the local Nobles, but if their castle was too small, the nobility would get kicked out to make room. Of course you wouldn’t turn her down, or expect payment.
D1xWr TIL of Lachhiman Gurung, A Nepalese Gurkha who lost his arm in battle but continued to fight with his bolt action rifle, single handedly holding off over 200 Japanese troops and killing 31 until the next morning.
M5Am TIL the U.S. Patent office allowed someone to patent the idea of “wireless communication” in 2010. They are now suing Apple & Samsung.
jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds