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TIL if you have no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans

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v1y48 TIL of bioengineering professor Manu Prakash, who invented a foldable microscope and centrifuge that cost under a dollar combined. The implications of these tools for impoverished countries are huge.
d80Yr TIL that while on his deathbed, Alexander Graham Bell's wife begged him not to leave her. Bell's last word was, "No."
d4k7 TIL the Navy SEALs that killed bin laden got stealth series fleshlights as a ‘thank you’ from the company.
R7kp4 TIL that when drivers began using radar detectors, police forces began purchasing radar detector detectors, which led to radar detector manufacturers adding radar detector detector detector circuits to their devices
4XNPb The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.