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TIL Arctic is not continent, but just region, because it's basically ice floating on water, not landmass like Antarctic

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NXnPM TIL that on March 27, 1790, Harvey Kennedy invented the shoelace with aglets.
QN4JX TIL about the old Chinese custom of 'footbinding' (also known as lotus feet), and that it was seen as a mark of feminine beauty and a status symbol, raising marriage prospects. Feet were broken and bound together, ensuing in many deformities, infections, and disabilities.
R76A6 TIL Coca-Cola was purchased by Ernest Woodruff with other businessmen in 1919 for $25 million and first went public in 1919 at a price of $40 per share
BZrW TIL that transparent aluminum, which has existed since 1981, can stop a .50 caliber bullet.
GAxKG TIL - Silicon wafers used for making computer chips are sawed from an ingot of silicon, that is grown as a single crystal, that can be 2m long and weigh several hundred kg.