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TIL about Elinor Otto, born 1919, the "Last Rosie the Riveter", who worked for 50 years building airplanes and was laid off in 2014, at age 93. She's still alive today.

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lLAr TIL that the Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong’s phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write
gr5YD TIL Apple had a mysterious zeroclick exploit affecting many of its products that went undetected for 4 years. When it was discovered it was largely unreported by the media
grv6A TIL that you're never more than 115 miles from a Mcdonald's Restaurant in the continental U.S.
Lgl9 TIL Nikola Tesla was in favor of sterilising criminals and mentally unstable and believed that by 2100 no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny
xvKB TIL that a man in Florida woke up with a severe headache. When he went to the hospital they found a bullet in his head. It turned out that his wife had shot him in the head while he was sleeping.