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TIL in 2009 Elena Bodnar invented a brassiere with cups that can be separated and converted into two emergency face masks -- one for the wearer of the bra, and one to be given to a needy bystander

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pbEO TIL when nazis demanded a list of Jews living on the island of Zakynthos from the mayor and the bishop, they handed over a list of only their own two names.
4Dva TIL that in California and 13 other states, if injured by a drug dealer, the victim of harm and their employer may sue the drug dealer for the costs of medical rehabilitation and treatment.
epKjJ TIL during a backlash against relaxed 1960s attitudes to drugs and weed smoking backpackers on the hippie trail in Asia, anyone with sufficiently suspect attributes would have the letters SHIT (“suspected hippie in transit”) stamped in their passports in Malaysia before being deported.
YpAjd TIL in 1965, a Swedish student was told by his fiancée in East Germany that she would never be able to leave the country to live with him in Sweden. Undeterred, he took flying lessons for a year, illegally flew a Cessna from Austria into Czechoslovakia, smuggled her out, and married her in Sweden
8aAVG TIL, Ball, the company everyone knows for making glass canning jars, has an aerospace division that built the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - the largest telescopic instrument ever sent beyond Earth’s orbit.