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TIL Jane Barbe was the woman who did “The number you have dialed…” recordings for the phone company. She got her start as a copywriter. Being a poor speller, she opted to read her first commercial out loud to her boss instead of submitting it in writing. He began paying her to make recordings.

epRxg TIL China launched a hypersonic missile in 2021 that launched a second missile whilst it was going Mach 5, stunning American scientists
ljwK TIL 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo died after being doused with chemical agents three times in 13 minutes while in a Florida confinement cell. Florida prison officials and the Florida Department oF Law Enforcement concluded there was no relationship between the gassing and Jordan-Aparo’s death
yQkmJ TIL scientists discovered that the reason cocaine users lose weight isn't because it suppresses appetite, but rather because it suppresses the body's ability to store nutrients as fat. In fact they also found that cocaine users actually eat more than non-users on average, and still lose weight.
l6j1 TIL a professor of genetics at Stanford university believes that human intelligence peaked 1,000 years ago, and we’ve been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since.
xRo5 TIL Michael Crichton, the screenwriter of Jurassic Park, had a novel (Disclosure) and a television show (ER) reach U.S. number one at the same time the film did in 1994. He is the only person to achieve these hits simultaneously.