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TIL: Flight Attendants are not paid until the doors close

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dDKOK TIL Douglas Engelbart never received any royalties for the invention of the mouse. In an interview he said "SRI (Stanford Research Institute) patented the mouse, but they had no idea of its value. Some years later it was known that they had licensed it to Apple Computer for something like $40,000."
WkZ9o TIL City water supplies in Minneapolis, USA and Warsaw, Poland use a "bio-monitoring system." Consisting of clams and mussels that alert them to pollutants via text message or switches. When the clams close, a spring glued to their head completes a switch and alerts the operators in Warsaw.
NJjE TIL: The word “dude” first appeared in the late 1800s as a term of mockery for young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions.
YpRp7 TIL a 71 year old man has 29 college degrees and is working towards obtaining more
0waaR TIL that the first surgery was practiced around 3000BC and it was called trephining. It involved putting a hole in someone’s head, and some theorize that is was used to rid the body of evil spirits. This surgery was in use through Medieval times and the renaissance.