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TIL Whale poop used to be an ingredient in ice cream

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R1vQ TIL Hedy Lamarr, an actress in the 40’s and 50’s and “the most beautiful woman in the world”, co-patented the technology that would lead to Wi-Fi, GPS, wireless phones, and others.
Y7OWx TIL about Robert Morris, who went from becoming the richest man in the United States (and Senator), to living in a debtors prison for 3 years.
WkBwX TIL in 1982, GM was toying with the idea of developing a car with a turbine engine that ran on coal dust due to the concern over rising oil prices.
L1n9 TIL that a Nat Geo photographer was “adopted” by a leopard seal in Antarctica that tried to teach him how hunt penguins. When he didn’t catch on, she tried to feed him.
Q9kk TIL there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called ‘Da Jesus Book’