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TIL an objective test found that there was no real perceivable difference in audio performance between a coat hanger soldered to a jack and expensive, high end speaker cables.

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ownL TIL India’s Dabbawalas deliver 200,000 meals a day, making one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. FedEx and Harvard are studying their methods.
N5R1 TIL that a black police officer faced charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself.
5YJMk TIL that Ebbie Tolbert was born around 1807 and spent over 50 years as a slave. She got her freedom at the age of 56. She also lived long enough so that at age 113 she could walk to the St Louis polling station and registered to vote.
9Y5NG TIL that on May 19th, 1999 when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace released into theaters, an estimated 2.2 million full time employees missed work to watch the film. Costing the US an estimated $293 million dollars from lose of productivity.
e0AKg TIL James Pike the Bishop of California from 1958-1966 was an early proponent of the ordination of women, racial desegregation, and the acceptance of LGBT people within mainline churches.