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

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J1dBj TIL that in sociology, there's the notion of the "third place". The 1st place is your home. The 2nd place is your workplace and the 3rd place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place").
m1rVv TIL In 1955 a runaway light plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted over Sydney, Australia. Three separate Airforce attempts to shoot it down failed, before two Navy pilots made a successful 'kill' 5 miles offshore.
xmj1 TIL that a 13-year-old boy from Qom, Iran, called Hossein Fahmideh disabled an Iraqi tank and halted the advance of an entire Iraqi tank column at the cost of his life in Kermanshah. He later was awarded the 1st Grade Fath medal (posthumously) and the date of his death is now a holiday in Iran.
p8pOp TIL Fleetwood Mac’s hit album, Rumors, was fueled by so much cocaine that the band tried to include their dealer into the albums credits.
rNK51 TIL it was illegal to sell beef-on-the-bone in the UK between 1997 and 1999, in an attempt to limit the spread of mad cow disease