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TIL FDR died in the middle of posing for this portrait.

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EPKX TIL Lockheed Martin is developing an exoskeleton for the military that will allow a soldier to carry a 200lb load for extended periods.
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kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
4leX TIL that Nintendo was so popular in the 1980s and early 1990s that it almost destroyed the computer-game industry. Even the children of computer-game developers demanded the console despite their parents’ refusals and access to state-of-the-art computers at home.
1601r TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.