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TIL The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941was only 10 seconds long, and was an advertisement for Bulova watches. It cost the company a total of $9.

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N7xeE TIL How much a billion dollars really is. If you were paid 1 dollar a second for 12 days, you would be millionaire. To become a billionaire from this method, it would take over 31 years. So, these two terms should not be seen as interchangeable, as many people would lead you to believe.
5YrGk TIL Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.
ObJ1 TIL there is a deaf rapper named ‘Signmark’ who raps using sign language.
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nWyZd TIL That there is a numeric question trick that can almost guarantee the response to be "carrot" after a few questions, regardless of culture.