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OokVX TIL: Henry Dreyfuss designed some of the most iconic devices found in American homes and offices throughout the twentieth century, including the Western Electric Model 500 telephone, the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, and the Honeywell round thermostat. Plus, the streamlined locomotive.
l0MV TIL CIA spent $15 million to train a cat to spy on Russians. Just after it was released on its mission, the cat was killed by a car.
JYjLm Til that 'the Pale' was the small part of Ireland directly controlled by English during medieval times and that it refers to the stakes that hold together fences, from which we get 'Beyond the Pale'.
0wZ1j TIL of Ines Ramirez, who was forty years old, far from medical assistance and struggling during a difficult birth. She cut into her own abdomen with a kitchen knife and delivered her son, becoming the only person to have performed a Caesarean section on herself.
EOxW TIL Semantic Satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.