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TIL that most pictures we see of “old” Einstein are many years after he published anything groundbreaking as his most noteworthy achievements are from his miracle year of 1905, when he was 26

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x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.
awd0Z TIL about the Bangui magnetic anomaly which is a dip in the Earth's magnetic field in the Central African Republic - a grievously poor country in the middle of Africa. The anomaly may have been caused by an ancient meteorite impact...
pQke TIL Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
16GKd TIL Saban's Big Bad Beetleborgs, Mystic Knights, VR Troopers and Masked Rider were all popular kids' shows in the 1990's with high ratings, each were canceled due to Saban running out of footage from the original shows since each of these shows were based on the Japanese show, Metal Hero Tokusatsu
e4kE TIL In Iceland, around 90% of homes are heated from geothermal sources.