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TIL that Sony recalled camera in 1998 that could see through clothes

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6QBm TIL Major League Baseball umpires are required by rule to wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.
R7KYa TIL elephants (and other animals) can suffer from PTSD.
n0Ob TIL that in WW2 an American popular culture trend resulted in people graffiti-ing “Killroy was here” across Europe, which convinced Hitler that Kilroy was a spy and Stalin even investigated trying to find out who Kilroy was.
eaxg TIL that the little membrane at the inner corner of the eye is a vestigial remnant of a nictitating membrane, aka transparent eyelid, present in fishes, birds and reptiles today.
x6E51 TIL that the average adult human brain can accumulate the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of memory.