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TIL that the Turkish F-Keyboard was designed using studies on bone and muscle anatomy of the fingers and letter frequencies in the Turkish language. With this scientific preparation, Turkey has broken 14 world records in typewriting championships between 1957 and 1995

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OoEdY TIL 3 Mile Island contained nearly all of its radioactive material and subjected surrounding residents to the amount of radiation equivalent to a half a chest xray. No additional deaths are implicated.
KN74 TIL that in WWI, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them.
PYJLg TIL - Doc Pomus wrote Save The Last Dance For Me on a napkin on his wedding day while watching his wife dance with guests. He was wheelchair bound from polio.
7rnAp TIL there are gloves that teach untrained musicians to play the piano in an hour. While wearing, the gloves vibrate in ways that stimulate certain movements to condition a user's hand for a specific task. These vibrations help the brain soak up knowledge even if the wearer isn't paying attention.
4XY1w TIL that the deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft).