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TIL that Turkey (which wants to join the EU) imprisons more journalists than China and Iran combined.

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pYd4Q TIL the Ampex corporation in the 1950s sold the first 8 track recorder machine to musician Les Paul (solid body electric guitar pioneer). It was installed in Paul's home studio in 1957 for $10,000 which was roughly three times the US average yearly income in 1957 and equivalent to $107,000 in 2023.
PYE6J TIL that to lower the cost of the car and make it more affordable to Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management”, resulting in a assembly line that reduced the time for car manufacturing, from 12 hours to 93 minutes
X4LP TIL that schizophrenia can be diagnosed with 98.3% accuracy using a simple eye test that tracks eye movement abnormalities
OGr4 TIL in 1985 Jeff Goddard, a Domino’s Pizza franchisee, invented the Spoodle, a combination spoon/ladle that allowed him to win the World’s Fastest Pizza Maker competition. They are now in use throughout the food service industry
JYgbV TIL 'Home Alone’ was released in France as ‘Mum, I Missed the Plane’, and ‘Home Alone 2’ as ‘Mum, I Missed the Plane Again and This Time I Am Lost in New York’