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TIL Pierce Brosnan lost both his wife and adopted daughter to ovarian cancer.

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nPnY TIL the first digital camera was developed by Kodak in 1975 but then dropped due to fears that it would threaten their photographic-film business
KYvkQ TIL red blood cells don’t have mitochondria or a nucleus
nD7B TIL one of the leading advocates of circumcision was John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the famous breakfast cereal. He advocated the consumption of Kellogg’s corn flakes to prevent masturbation, and he believed that circumcision would be an effective way to eliminate masturbation in males.
7ADr TIL: There is evidence of boats being used by early man over 900,000 years ago.
YpM0P TIL the boycott was named after Charles Boycott, a man so hated that people wanted nothing to do with him