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TIL Amazon used to manufacture "dash buttons" where if you press the button (which can be mounted anywhere) the product the button is linked to is automatically ordered

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gMRDX TIL that during the Second World War the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front, which involved more land combat than all other WWII theatres combined.
PYxxg TIL of Mercedes de Acosta, a writer who had many salacious love affairs with famous women in the 1920s and 30s, including Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. She reportedly claimed, “I can get any woman away from any man.”
xVZ81 TIL that US Presidential candidates get intelligence briefings. Harry Truman began this practice in 1952 as a reaction to his own experience at the beginning of his Presidency - he knew next to nothing about the U.S.’s intelligence apparatus, including the Manhattan Project.
a89vM TIL I learned that in 2001, a New York couple got married on the deck of the Titanic, in a submarine. They faced criticism that their stunt was in "bad taste."
dVmQ TIL That 5,382 British Royal Marines held off 13,749 French and Spanish troops for 7 months after being told they would be relieved.