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TIL Steve Comisar sold "solar powered clothes dryers" in national magazines for $49.99 and subsequently sent customers a clothesline.

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EleX TIL Julian Lennon had to buy the letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko Ono wouldn’t give them to him.
Go4E TIL 67 years ago today, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. He completed the flight with two broken ribs, and as a result of the injury, had to close the hatch on the Bell X-1 with a broomstick.
j648X TIL the human body can naturally settle into a sleep-wake cycle of up to 50 hours, when there's no day/night cycle to observe. In 1962 geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave, where he planned to remain for two months tracking time assuming 1 sleep equals one day, but he was off by 2 weeks.
kagd TIL Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas
AQKw TIL there are dozens of musical compositions which consist of nothing but silence, including ones by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Soundgarden, Korn, Nine Inch Nails and John Denver. The Soundgarden one is a cover of the John Lennon one.