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TIL that Intel was going to be called Moore Noyce but it was scrapped because it sounded too close to more noise

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dJwQ TIL that US police detectives have worn suits for more than 100 years. Dressing formally is “psychological armor”; it “establishes a barrier between them and the messiness” of police work, says a psychologist.
W7LnY TIL that average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's about the same as 40 school buses.
49jw TIL athletes are more likely to get cavities. Regular exercisers are “mouth breathers”, which causes plaque to dry on their teeth
E1gAx TIL that 19-yo Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara "Maybelline" in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of VaseLINE and coaldust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.
8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.