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TIL about baby cages. The first commercial patent for a baby cage was filed in 1922 by Emma Read of Spokane, Washington.

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rJd TIL that Japanese style curry was originally considered a Western food in Japan as curry was introduced to Japan by the British.
Ap67 TIL that the city of Bogotá, Columbia employed 420 mimes to poke fun at pedestrians and drivers who didn’t follow the rules. As a result, traffic fatalities dropped by more than half, from an average of around to 1300 to about 600.
8p5b TIL - Anderson Cooper is related to Cornelius Vanderbilt and a Civil War general, was a Calvin Klein model, interned at the CIA, studied Vietnamese, lived in Africa and caught malaria…
74aM TIL of the “Euthanasia Machine” invented by Philip Nitschke, which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection if the correct answers are made.
DL4p TIL that Miramax was owned by Disney until 2010. That makes Pulp Fiction a Disney movie.