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TIL The NHL designed a puck with IR sensors in it to track it - that’s how they made it glow in the 90’s

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WNON TIL virtually all Middle Ages scholars believed that the Earth is spherical. The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.
WDPY TIL JCPenney tried to do away with fake retail sales and implemented flat rate pricing. They failed miserably and lost 700 million dollars.
v1gO4 TIL that Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful
K1W6 TIL Frank Zappa commisioned a quilt of panties that were thrown on stage from his 1980-1981 tour. He did not wash them first.
d8d4Q TIL that when a male fruit fly is sexually rejected by a female fruit fly, it will seek out more alcohol than those that have successfully mated.