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TIL a Hollywood actress, Hedy Lamarr, invented the basis for modern WiFi and bluetooth in 1941

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ANQBn TIL: The first recorded Olympic champion was a cook named Coroebus, who won the stadion race in the ancient Olympics in 776 BC. The stadion race was a sprint of about 200 meters and was the only event in the first Olympic Games.
a8kZ0 TIL before Julia child became famous for her endeavors with the joy of cooking she was on the business of making shark repellant for the USA OSS
0g7A TIL During WWII more people were killed building V2 rockets than were killed by the rockets themselves
b9Ap4 TIL part of Washington, DC was returned to Virginia in 1846 in a process called "retrocession," but the sections donated by Maryland have resisted the idea of being reunited with Maryland.
bO47 TIL a Philadelphia man on a business trip to Boston noticed paper curling out from behind his office blinds. He flipped the blinds and saw a giant photo of his identical twin brother staring back at him. His twin had worked in the same office in the same building years earlier.