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TIL: There’s a toxic waste plant that displays a warning to warn people far in the future of its danger

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69mQX TIL that despite the common myth that the F-14 had the world's first airborne digital microprocessor, it may have been General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark., starting with the FB-111, then later the F-111D. Therefore beating the F-14 by several years.
X0Eo8 TIL that ridiculously high platform shoes were worn by women during the middle ages. Up to 20" tall, they allowed powerful women to tower over underlings. Venice had to pass laws limiting them to 3 inches due to injuries.
69RJ8 TIL couscous is a pasta, not a grain
XYZk TIL that actress Hedy Lamarr was also a prolific inventor. One of her inventions allowed for guided torpedoes in WWII. But because the Navy wasn’t receptive to ideas coming outside the military, it wasn’t implemented during the war. Her idea went to later be basis for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, & CDMA.
ADjEx TIL the Jewish religion does not cook/eat meat and dairy together because it is considered cruel to cook an animal in the very milk that was meant to nourish it.