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TIL in 2012, a woman successfully sold a Chicken McNugget on eBay for $8,100 because it looked like George Washington

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xZe1 TIL that the microcontroller inside a Macbook charger is about as powerful as the original Macintosh computer.
OGxme TIL there is a news maxim called, "Betteridge's Law of Headlines" that basically states any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered, "no".
Yp9rv TIL of U.S. Patent 3216423: Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force, which was intended to facilitate labour by spinning a pregnant mother. The designers believed that "civilised women... often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement."
nWJKG TIL that 'double muscled' mice, having a deficiency of myostatin(a protein that inhibits muscle growth), are found to have excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation; i.e. they are more muscular, but not necessarily stronger
jNZLE TIL that while they were originally thought to be white with black stripes because of their white belly, zebras are actually black (where the pigment is activated) with white stripes (where the pigment is inhibited) as shows embryological evidence