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TIL of Jessica O. Matthews, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur. At the age of 19 she invented the Soccket, which is a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy and can provide three hours of light after half an hour of play.

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wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
b9vlZ TIL that Glenn Shadix, the actor who played Otho in Beetlejuice, was subjected to “ex gay” electrical shock treatments when he came out to his parent. When this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide and survived a 3 day coma. After the incident, his parents accept ed his sexuality.
W7ja8 TIL about Agnes Sorel, the 15th-century official mistress of Charles VII who bore him four children. Her scandalous dresses prompted the Catholic Archbishop to condemn her choice of clothing with “front openings through which one sees the teats, nipples, and breasts of women.”
R58G6 TIL the expression "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" comes from the 1878 novel 'Molly Bawn' by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
8aY4L TIL new Florida man Tom Brady accidentally walked into a stranger's home when he meant to go to the Buccaneers' offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich's house. Because of social distancing, Byron had told Tom he'd leave info for him in his open house, but Tom surprised a neighbor instead.