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TIL: Mavis Beacon is a fictional character and not a real woman who wanted to teach everyone typing

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m91y TIL During Islam’s Golden Age, scientists were paid the equivalent of what pro athletes are paid today.
mxav TIL: In 1965 Mattel Inc. came out with a Slumber Party Barbie, complete with bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs and a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions on the back stating simply: “Don’t eat.” Barbie, IRL, would have a BMI of 16.24.
pjBp TIL that there is a highway in Russia known as the Road of Bones, as the skeletons of the forced laborers who died during its construction were used in much of its foundations
Volk TIL Forrest Fenn hid his treasure somewhere in the United States and is valued over $1 million. Here are the clues…
78D8X TIL helicopters can trigger lightning strikes