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TIL: 5% of people do not experience a headache in their lifetime.

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xVKWb TIL that weeks before the end of World War II a group of Russian school children presented a wood replica of the Great Seal of the U.S. to the American ambassador. Hanged up in a study in the ambassador’s residence, it contained a listening device that went undiscovered for 7 years.
M7Knb TIL that in 2005 Akira Toriyama the creator of Dragon Ball Z designed an electric car called the QVOLT. Only 9 of them were ever made.
P1WXJ TIL that the first goggles specifically for swimming were designed by an Irish priest called Michael O'Flanagan who was also associated with the Irish independent movement and Spanish republicanism during it's civil war.
GYwnj TIL that the etymological history of the word 'Slavs" stems from the Middle English word "sclave" which means slaves given that medieval Slavs were routinely captured and enslaved during wars in the Middle Ages.
Yp49B TIL about Carles Recio, who showed up to work only to clock in & out for over a decade, spending his free time running a male brothel & drawing erotic comics.