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TIL there is no evidence that Victorian doctors gave women orgasms to cure hysteria or that they invented the vibrator to help with this task

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gMmlD TIL the tallest wave ever recorded reached 524m when it struck land. This is the height of building 1 of the World Trade Center (including the antenna)
XYPQ TIL that in 1958, the Navy expected its human-level A.I. “to be finished in about a year at a cost of $100,000.”
jNG5N TIL: The Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897 hosted America’s 4,000 richest families. The cost ($9.7mil of today’s dollars) was enough to feed 1,000 families for 1 year.
xGl1 TIL I learned of the Soldier’s Poem, an epitaph often inscribed on falled WWII soldier’s graves: “And When he gets to heaven, To Saint Peter he will tell; One more Soldier reporting, sir. I’ve served my time in Hell!”
m1NQR TIL soon after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Private Sol Goldberg, with a nearby Canadian unit, smuggled supplies into the camp and used an operating room to illegally treat survivors. He was once caught smuggling supplies into the camp; instead of punishing him, his officers donated more supplies.