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TIL that the paper-based telescope that MacGyver built with a wristwatch doesn't work.

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nWBOo TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells.
kJ6Nm TIL that the Catholic church’s 1587 ruling that establishes the principle that impotents and eunuchs can’t marry is titled ‘Cum frequenter’
dDN0B TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".
8amAK TIL Dion DiMucci recorded his song "Runaround Sue" with black musicians. In the music video, the black musicians were replaced by white actors playing musicians so that it can be played in the South at that time.
vP1XL TIL that self-taught inventor/engineer E. Lilian Todd was the first woman to design and build an airplane, only 3 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight. However, she did not pilot the aircraft herself because she was denied a permit.