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TIL David Bowies left pupil is permanently dilated after a fight he got in when he was 15.

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J58l TIL as far back as the 1930s drivers could buy an “analog GPS” unit featuring moving maps of your location, route and destination - “Thought to be the first automated car-mounted navigation device, the gadget was tied into the speedometer in order to pace travel progress.”
9pkB TIL most of the laugh tracks you hear on TV were recorded in the 1950s, which means a lot of the people you hear laughing are dead.
D1Qeg TIL that there was a Peanuts/Spider-Man Crossover comic strip, in which, Spider-Man helps Charlie Brown kick the football by trapping Lucy in a web.
l7RbA TIL Victor Vescovo is the first person to complete the "Explorers' Extreme Trifecta" of land, sea & air by: summiting Mount Everest (the highest point on Earth), diving to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest point on Earth), & entering space (crossing the 100-km-high Kármán Line).
85kK TIL the city of Sao Paolo passed a “Clean City Law” a decade ago banning outdoor advertisements. Over 300,000 ostentatious business signs, billboards, posters, bus and taxi ads were taken down. Removing ads revealed civic issues, including hidden slums previously masked by adverts.