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TIL It is thought that the first vibrator may have been made by Cleopatra, by filling a tube with bees.

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4XOp6 TIL that an 800 sq. mile region on the border of Egypt and Sudan, Bir Tawil, has a terra nullius status, meaning no country claims the land and has no laws.
ANbWa TIL in 2019 the Italian fashion brand Max Mara was accused of plagiarizing traditional designs from the Oma ethnic minority in Laos, using their distinctive embroidery and appliqué patterns on clothing without acknowledgment or compensation, essentially exploiting their cultural heritage for profit.
yaMa TIL that all lighthouses on the US coastline have been fully automated for roughly 30 years
BBNk TIL that in 2008, Hackers gained unauthorized access to a NASA spacecraft’s control system but chose to do nothing with it.
16oed TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. The number of possible unique chess games is estimated to be 10^120, which is vastly greater than the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, which is around 10^80