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TIL that the City of London Corporation allows businesses to vote depending on the number of employees

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R7Em6 TIL that in World War 1, Nobel prize winning physicist Marie Curie developed mobile X-Ray stations to travel to the frontlines and assist army surgeons and preventing amputations when limbs were still intact. It's estimated that over a million wounded soldiers were x-rayed with her units.
0wnrp TIL Indian Americans are the ethnic group in the United States with the highest median household income, at $135,453
oRD9K TIL that 19th-century American lawyer Lysander Spooner created a private mail company to compete with the U.S. Post Office, which led to the government lowering its postal rates.
NpGe TIL the first person to climb the exterior of the Sear’s Tower did so using suction cups and while wearing a homemade Spiderman suit
e06l5 TIL Juan Catalan Spent nearly 6 months in jail for the murder of a teenage girl until his lawyer found unused footage from HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' that proved he had been at a Dodger's game with his 6 years old daughter.