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TIL Kevin Warwick is the first cyborg ever by getting wires surgically implanted to his nervous system

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awjeA TIL in 2016 Russia’s national air carrier Aeroflot directly linked the pay of its flight attendants to their dress size. This was defended as a “fuel saving” measure.
Z8Gba TIL Many of the tropes we associate with superheroes were invented by a woman, Baroness Emma Orczy, who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905
NP9b TIL that some cattle ranchers in South Dakota lost between 20 and 50 percent of their livestock in winter storm Atlas, and may not be eligible for insurance due to the expiration of the Farm Bill and federal government shutdown.
awdvb TIL that in 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway renamed the city to Bismarck, in honor of German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It is the only US state capital named for a foreign statesman
VMo08 TIL Dick Cavett did not realize he was in the movie Apollo 13 until he was at the theater watching it and saw himself.