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TIL that the inventor of the windshield wipers, a simple yet necessary car accessory, was a woman. Mary Andersen filed her patent in 1903 and called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles.

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VM8D8 TIL In 1740 a Swedish woman named Christina Johansdotter killed a friends infant in order to die herself as a result of execution for her crime. Bizarrely, killing children as a method of suicide was so problematic the government tried getting involved (tagged as NSFW just in case)
e0aKk TIL Hubble watched a failed supernova turn into a black hole before its very eyes. These so-called "massive fails" (seriously) are thought to occur when the core of a star is so huge its exploding shell of gas cannot escape, and instead collapses back in on itself.
m1w9v TIL there has only been one instance of a submarine sinking another submarine while submerged.
6A5X TIL that ace Hungarian shooter Károly Takács shattered his right hand in an accident, started practicing with his left hand, won national championship only months later, and still later two Olympic golds
9mg7 TIL the oldest and second oldest hotel in operation in the world were built in year 705 and 718 with in Japan