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TIL NASA invented invisible braces, scratch resistant lenses, and much more.

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Xr9k TIL Nichelle Nichols was talked out of quitting her role as Uhura on ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ by Martin Luther King Jr., because showing a black woman working alongside white men would help to achieve racial equality.
p8mWe TIL that Troop Sport, a popular streetwear brand in the '80s and '90s, went bankrupt because of fake rumors that it was owned by the KKK.
xVXZ1 TIL - Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles
xZVg TIL: There’s an island called Monkey Island off the coast of Puerto Rico, where the monkeys naturally have Herpes B, which can kill humans. So the first rule of Monkey Island is “don’t get peed on”.
4XajX TIL: Action figures have been made as far back as the first century. Romans made clay figurines of gladiators.