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TIL the Instrument of Government and the Humble Petition and Advice were the only codified constitutions of England

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9xlM TIL Microsoft filed a patent in 2011 for media DRM based on monitoring users with cameras connected to a video game console.
E1BK0 TIL that in 1985, Wong-Staal became the first person to clone HIV and to generate a genetic mapping of the virus which would be used for the research and design of treatments for AIDS.
RjvQ Jet/planes are tested by blasting 800 gallons of water per minute, ice balls, and dead chickens at running engines to assure that they hold their form.
b6L4 TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”
oRNoE TIL that Waffen SS was finished off by the Free North Vietnamese Army. The French recruited the Elite Waffen SS for the battle of Dien Bien Phu and their Indochina Conflict post WW2