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TIL I learned of Neil Tillotson, the inventor of latex gloves and balloons. He was also the first voter in every American presidential primary and presidential election from 1960-2000.

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grKVW TIL Julius Caesar wasn't born via Caesarean section. In fact, the procedure was named well before he existed. Despite this, in some languages, the term directly translates the "caesar" part. For example, in German it's "Kaiserschnitt" (emperor cut).
PPQJ TIL there is a German engineering company named Festo that designs swimming underwater robots that replicate the movements of animals using a “fluidic muscle.” They have working models of a penguin, a ray, a gull, and a flying manta ray blimp.
8p0L TIL that a there is a traditional British army drink called gunfire made of black tea and rum. Officers serve it to lower ranks on Christmas. During the Korean war, British soldiers once gave gunfire to some American MPs, causing them to drive an ARV and some Jeeps into a fence.
neKWr TIL that Noah Glass was one of Twitter's Early Founders
BwWx TIL James Huberty called a mental health clinic, left his name, and waited for hours for them to return his call. His name was written down as “Shouberty” and the call was a non-crisis because Huberty was so polite. The next day he carried out one of America’s worst rampage killings.