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TIL the steam engine, the wind turbine, and the vending machine were invented 2000 years ago by a Greek engineer named Hero

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eKXn TIL humans have invisible “stripes” in their skin that are only visible due to certain skin diseases. The patterns that these “stripes” form are thought to be the migration patterns of embryonic cells.
7rYAP TIL 3 Scottish soldiers escaped capture from German soldiers when they spoke their native Gaelic to confuse them after their capture claiming they were Ukrainian. The German soldiers let them go.
lo97K TIL African dodger (or Hit the Coon or Hit the N***** Baby) was a carnival game played in the US, in which an African-American man would stick his head through a curtain, and try to dodge objects, such as eggs or baseballs, thrown at him by players. It was played until the 1950s.
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