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TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s

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0w7Rp TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
kOPDW TIL one person in four is a 'supertaster', who experience the sensation of tasting more intensely. Supertasters have a high density of taste cells on their tongue, but are likely to have a distaste for beer.
BgWVK TIL The Marx Brothers radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel about an unscrupulous lawyer was orginally called Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle. The title changed after Morris Beagle sued because he was receiving prank phone calls. In show, Groucho's character changed his name because he divorced.
arlL TIL that five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped one million leaflets over the city and 33 other Japanese cities warning that those cities were going to be destroyed
WodL TIL In 1963,a CIA-funded psychiatrist, Dr. Ewen Cameron managed to completely wipe a woman’s memory by using electroshocks and hallucinogens over a 86 day period..