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TIL in 1996 Brian Zembic agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000. He won the bet but became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.

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j09a TIL that in 1973 science historian James Burke predicted the widespread use of computers for business decisions, the creation of metadata banks of personal information, and changes in human behaviour, such as greater willingness to reveal personal information to strangers
MpK8 Today I learned that there is a self mummification practice, in which extreme ascetics commit suicide over ten years with the goal of turning their own body into a mummy as a sign of spiritual enlightenment.
ZpKL4 TIL In his original concept drawings for Oscar the Grouch, creator Jim Henson imagined a magenta monster. Due to the limitations of early color television, Oscar was redesigned with orange fur for his premiere on the first season of Sesame Street in 1969, and changed to green for the second season.
BrPxW TIL that Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the southerns states, then returned again and again to rescue 70 more enslaved people. Then later, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada. During the American Civil War she helped the Union Army.
D1eXr TIL the tiny island country of Tokelau’s electricity is generated entirely by solar power. However, when it is overcast outside, the island runs on generators powered by coconut oil.