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Brvay TIL that St. Claire of Assisi, who died in 1253 A.D., was named the Patron Saint of Television by Pope Pius XII in 1958, based on an incident in which she claimed the moving image and sound of a Catholic Mass had been miraculously projected on the wall of her room when she was too sick to attend.
X0LEr TIL that shrapnel is named after Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel who was a British artillery officer who invented the shrapnel artillery shell.
4e86 TIL that during a CNN online chat with President Clinton in 2000, a prankster managed to log in as the President following a technical glitch and typed “I wish to see more porn on the Internet”.
gney TIL the US Coast Guard trains pigeons to spot lifejackets, and they’re 92% accurate.
kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.