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TIL that Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they chose to set it at nine minutes and a few seconds.

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a8GA TIL that phone numbers are seven digits because that was once thought to be about the limit of the brain’s working memory
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.
vwgD TIL: Sting earns 100% of the royalties ($2000 a day) from Puff Daddys’ song ‘I’ll be missing you’, because Puff Daddy didn’t ask permission to use the sample from 'Every breath you take’
J11nm TIL that Michael Jordan had to put away his cigar in certain interviews in the last dance was because his mom saw and got mad at him.
JQp1 TIL in 1966, two American teenagers found two child mummies in a cave in Mexico, smuggled them back to California, and ditched them in a friend’s garage until the friend’s mother discovered the mummies 14 years later.