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TIL Keurig pod inventor regrets having invented it and doesn’t own one.

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x684w TIL about Virginia Hall, an American who worked for France and the UK to spy and sabotage against the nazis in WWII. She escaped France by walking over a 7,500 ft pass in the Pyrenees to Spain, with a prosthetic leg
gr6B8 TIL: India has a payment system that is fast, small shopkeepers to large corporations use it and is replacing cash, called the UPI.
xVKJk TIL that Terry Pratchett's daughter, Rhianna Pratchett, is a video game writer responsible for stories like BioShock Infinite, Mirror's Edge, the new Tomb Raider series and Overlord.
b981Z TIL Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the US and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
vAM8 TIL that the iconic Nokia 3310s battery capacity is 3 - 4 times less than an average smartphone today.