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TIL Penn and Teller sell the Bill of Rights in metal, so when you go through airport security, they’ll have to “take away your Bill of Rights”

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E1D17 TIL both Caller ID and call waiting were invented Dr Shirley Jackson; the first African-American woman to gain a PhD from MIT. Her breakthroughs in theoretical physics & telecommunications also allowed for portable fax, fibre optic cables, and solar cells.
mx0Op TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings from 1937 to 1949, and that it wasn't published until 1955; in other words, it took 18 years for it to be completed and published.
0d9xM TIL the Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line in Japan has a stationmaster cat
GAyl7 TIL that a steel bridge in India is being dangerously eroded by pedestrians spitting on it
neVwW TIL America's longest-serving innocent prisoner was Ricky Jackson who spent 39 years behind bars, from the age 19 to 58. He received more than one million dollars compensation from the state of Ohio