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TIL of James Clerk Maxwell who wrote the first equations unifying electricity, magnetism, and light as being part of the same phenomenon.

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GxOj TIL the only way the BBC could record its live broadcasts in the 1950s was to point a film camera at a television. Because of this, the only known recording of the landmark sci-fi serial “The Quatermass Experiment” features an insect walking across the screen.
x6L07 TIL about “jouhatsu”, the people who pay companies specialized in making people disappear
65AW TIL that James Jameson of Jameson Whiskey once arranged for cannibals to eat a slave girl in front of him, whilst he sketched the whole incident.
N7Q1 TIL there’s a company that invented the retractable syringe to prevent AIDS and offers to sell it at a equal price to consumers. Yet they’re over shadowed by a billion dollar company “BD”.
BgNQr TIL The first person to windsurf across the Atlantic was also the captain of the only fatal Concorde incident.