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TIL Nokia Candybar Phones are 10 of the top 20 Best Selling Mobile Phones of All Time.

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0Gbj TIL that in Hollywood, Christopher Nolan along with Steven Speilberg are among the last holdouts who shoot on film in an industry that’s moved to digital.
4XBeJ TIL: That "the fist of the sender," the personality of a morse code operator in WW2, could identify allies from enemies, their locations & troop movements, and more. The pace and style of their communication allowed expert operators to track them. This was the precursor to modern keystroke dynamics.
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
kOY0B TIL that the word "nightmare" is derived from the Old English "mare", a mythological demon that rides on people's chests while they sleep, causing bad dreams.
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