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TIL: How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases

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7rWW7 TIL that Canada declared war on Japan in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor before the United States declared war the next day.
4Xmbo TIL George Eastman founder of the Kodak and helped to bring the use of roll film into the mainstream, suffered from a degenerative disease in his final two years. Eastman died by suicide with a gunshot through the heart. His suicide note read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."
6E8GJ TIL That the Navajo were not the only Code Talkers in WWII. In fact, the Comanche had their own Code Talkers that were used in Europe the same way the Navajo were used in the Pacific.
8evO4 TIL the first Blue LED wasn't commercially available until 1989 and bright blue LEDs weren't available until 1993.
lo9VB TIL that congregating in public while wearing a mask is illegal in the state of New York.