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TIL that until there used to be an almond-flavoured soft drink called “Dr Nut” which had a squirrel in its logo

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nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
9Y91G TIL in 1824, a French physicist unknowingly initiated the science of "thermodynamics" outlining the second law and developing the notion of a "reversible process" in nature, when he wrote a book about how to maximize the efficiency of steam engines, at the age of 27
wL6X8 TIL Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) from Beauty and the Beast (1991) sang “Tale as old as time” in a single take after being initially against it because she thought her “aging singing voice” wasn’t suited for the song.
5Vwn8 TIL When director Taylor Hackford approached Jamie Foxx to play Ray Charles he didn't know he was a piano player
5dRR TIL a window washer in New York survived a 47-floor fall by hanging onto the aluminum platform, which rode the air like a surfboard creating wind resistance that slowed his descent. He now walks 1-2 miles every day and has finished a 5k charity event.