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TIL Two Australians invented the electric drill in 1889! Arthur Arnot and William Brain of Melbourne, Australia. Then in 1895 the first portable drill was made by two German brothers.

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KPOG TIL that white chocolate is not chocolate. It is made with cocoa butter, a by-product of the cocoa bean in the chocolate making process, combined with milk, sugar, and other flavoring ingredients, but none of the cocoa bean is included.
9wQlr TIL, Contrary to what I was taught in school - The Great Wall of China is NOT visible from the moon or space in general. At best, it is visible from the low orbits under very favorable weather conditions. Some other earthly structures, e.g., desert roads, have much higher visibility from space.
ZmWY TIL Out of the longest 50 lifespans recorded, only 5 are male. Out of the top 100, only 8 are male.
6EnmJ TIL that the Portuguese in India used to rip off native women's breasts with large iron forks for not converting to Christianity. They did so to threaten others to fall in line and to stop them from feeding their newborns.
7VwP TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the Vietnam War had landed a helicopter in the line of fire to confront and stop American troops who had by that point killed close to 500 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre, was labeled a traitor by Congress and ordered not to speak about the event.