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

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a8peZ TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, died of Lewy Body Dementia. The same disease that took Robin Williams.
epw6n TIL one of the moons of Mars (Phobos) orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. From the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes, and set in the east, twice each Martian day.
p8wdb TIL About the battle of Shipka Pass, in which 5,500 Bulgarian volunteers and 2,500 Russian Soldiers defended against a 40,000 strong Ottoman army and successfully held their position.
nbMY TIL the US Capitol has a 116-year-old private subway for the exclusive use of congressmen and their staff
lokrB TIL that during the Great Depression, a prominent attorney flipped $2 (inflation adjusted $31) into $100,000 ($1,500,000). He then proceeded to award the money to the woman who could give birth to the most amount of kids in the following decade.