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TIL Scuba divers use Magna Doodles to pass notes underwater
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TIL in the 1940s, AT&T sued Harry Tuttle for inventing the Hush-A-Phone—a device that silenced phones from eavesdroppers. AT&T argued the “device hadn’t been installed by their company” and the FCC voted in AT&T’s favor, but Tuttle continued to fight the case in open court and eventually won.
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TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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TIL: There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.
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TIL Half Price Books was founded by two men who pooled 2,000 of their own books as the store’s first merchandise.
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TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars