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TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation.

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xrPo TIL that Raging Bull was shot in black and white for no artistic purpose; it was just because lighting equipment for shooting in color would be too expensive.
A4Jd TIL when AC/DC was accused of backmasking Satanic messages in “Highway To Hell”, guitarist Angus Young said “you didn’t need to play [the album] backwards, because we never hid [the messages]. We’d call an album Highway To Hell, there it was right in front of them.”
8eedL TIL that there are around 1 million Racoons living in Germany. There was an attempt made in 1934 to introduce them by releasing a pair, but this attempt was seen as unsuccessful.A second population was established in eastern Germany in 1945 when 25 raccoons escaped from a fur farm after an airstrike
grlM7 TIL that when Hewlett-Packard (HP) began selling computers in 1966, it wanted to do so without using the HP name. HP turned the corporate logo upside down to look like "DY", and called the new computer business "DYMEC".
1ErP TIL of Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who competed at the Barcelona Olympics; her age was given as 17, but she was missing her front teeth and may have been as young as 10. Aside from an Olympic torch relay, her subsequent life and whereabouts are unknown.