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TIL: In 1926, Tesla accurately predicted smartphones. "A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

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ab7Z TIL a poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the 20th century was instant noodles.
vP457 TIL: Domino's Pizza's famous "30 minutes or less" guarantee only ran for 9 years, from 1984 to 1993, but it had a tremendous impact on popular culture.
4NdR TIL That it rains diamonds on gaseous planets like Neptune and Uranus. They contain methane that at high pressures and temperatures, turn into diamonds which then fall to the center of the planet.
4XNGo TIL at Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Canada, you can buy a $5 shot of whiskey with a real frostbitten human toe as your garnish and if you accidentally swallow it, you have to pay a $2,500 fine.
ZQAY TIL that there’s a Welsh settlement in Argentina called Y Wladfa, where they speak Patagonian Welsh. It was set up in 1865 as a “little Wales beyond Wales”.