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TIL about a device called the beauty micrometer, which was used to measure facial features to determine how much makeup can be used and was invented by beautician Max Factor

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DDlj Til: US law does not require employers to grant any vacation or holidays, and about 25% of all employees receive no paid vacation time or paid holidays
J1JRj TIL Japan was hailed the “international savior of the hour” by the allies during WWI and even used its navy to safeguard Hawaii so the USA could focus on the Atlantic
Z8y8a TIL The first US woman astronaut was also the first known LGBT astronaut
eyJJ TIL that press sensationalism influenced the 1982 conviction of an Australian woman for murdering her baby, and after 6 years in prison she was totally exonerated, yet her plaintive “a dingo ate my baby” became joke fodder among American comedians.
RnOQ TIL in a CIA program called “Operation Midnight Climax”, Prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to ‘safehouses’ in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 2-way mirrors.