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Today I learned barbers and surgeons went their separate ways in 1745

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W7Nao TIL the BBC Micro has a resistor to simulate a human holding their finger on the circuit board. The computer doesn't work without it, and we still don't know why today.
JYZA8 TIL that the northernmost battle of the American Civil War happened in St. Albans, Vermont. 21 Confederates arrived via Canada and checked into local hotels over the course of a week, before staging three bank robberies, stealing $3.4 million dollars (inflation-adjusted) and fleeing back to Canada
gM87b TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."
VB7XD TIL that Nobel Prize nominations aren't revealed for at least 50 years. If the nominee is still alive, their nomination is still kept secret.
m8lp TIL that the worlds first smartphone was released in 1994 by IBM, and cost $899, and had only one 3rd party app