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x69Zw TIL that French mathematician Abraham de Moivre noticed that he slept more and more as he grew older, and predicted he would die on the day his sleep reached 24 hours. He did indeed die on that day.
p8W4Z TIL a gentleman in the 1940s observed that the burr seeds that stuck to his clothes and his dog’s fur had a tiny hook structure. On closer inspection, he discovered the hooks were more reliable than a zipper. He developed a company popularly known today as Velcro.