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TIL: Thomas Harriot invented binary numbers to measure wine

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ejE TIL: diamonds aren’t forever. Diamonds are coated with boric acid during jewelry rework to seal out oxygen and keep them from burning
o1NE TIL: The man that invented the term anorexia nervosa was linked to the unsolved 1888 Whitechapel murders - Jack the Ripper.
vPenj TIL of Jackass Annie Road. In 1954 doctors told "Jackass Annie" Wilkins (63) of Minot, Maine that she would soon die. Wanting to see California, she rode a horse there and back over 17 months. Wilkins wrote a book about her adventure and lived until 1980. Minot renamed a street after her.
e04dk TIL about Queen Isabella of Valois, who was married at 6-years-old and widowed at 11. She reportedly had a close platonic relationship with her husband Richard II and was heartbroken when he died, refusing attempts to force her to remarry as she was 'in mourning'.
JR91 TIL that Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs sacrificed money and stayed in college for four years instead of going directly to the NBA because in her last days, his dying mother made him promise to graduate college with a degree.