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TIL that metal stretchers used to transport dead/wounded citizens after WWII airraids in London were repurposed to be used as fences around apartment buildings. Some are still in use today.

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OdrL TIL physicists have experimentally achieved temperatures below absolute zero. Using supercooled potassium gas and a system of lasers and magnetic fields to precisely manipulate the potassium atoms, physicists successfully “cooled” the gas to a few billionths of a degree below absolute zero.
nRro TIL under Brehon law in early Medieval Ireland, women had many of the same rights as men and when married were allowed to keep property they bought themselves and retain it in case of divorce
9XDG TIL Comcast has the worst customer service reviews of any company, with 54.4% of those surveyed claimed that their overall customer experience was negative. This is Comcast’s seventh consecutive year on the Customer Service Hall of Shame, and its first year at the top.
b6ZGN TIL that the invention of bicycles was fundamental to the early women's liberation movement. Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. It was also the main reason corsets and long skirts fell out of fashion in the early 20th century.
R7Nxl TIL telling ghost stories around a fire was originally a Christmas Eve tradition. Beginning with Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" it was an annual tradition throughout the Victorian Era and only changed when Halloween became popular in the 1920s.