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TIL the Ancient Greeks had a rudimentary railway c.600B.C
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TIL The "Miss Bumbum contest is a Brazilian annual pageant show which aims to find the best buttocks in the country."
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TIL A man sued the makers of Lineage II, an online game, for making him addicted to it. He claimed that he played the game for over 20,000 hours and neglected his family, hygiene, and health. He won the case and received an undisclosed settlement.
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TIL 3M accidentally created an Invisible Electrostatic Wall (Force Field) strong enough to stop a human from passing through
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TIL about Mrs Chippy, a male cat that took part in Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Originally thought a female, he was given that name because the crew thought he followed the ship's carpenter, "Chippy" McNish, like an attentive wife. A statue of Mrs Chippy is on McNish's grave.
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TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war