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TIL Sony released a camera in 1998 that could see through people's clothes. It included an infrared powered night mode that consumers realized could turn dark fabric and swimsuits transparent. Sony sold 700k "x-ray cameras" before fixing the issue in manufacturing.

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oRNrW TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.
8e16a TIL that American citizens must have a valid U.S. passport to enter American Samoa
R5lW1 TIL a link between testosterone and baldness was first discovered in a 1940s era study of mental hospital patients who were castrated and later injected with testosterone. These observations are now credited with helping to produce some of our modern treatments for male pattern baldness.
P1b5L TIL: the pallbearers at President Grant’s funeral were: Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, Senator John A. Logan and his close friends: Sheridan and Sherman
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