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rPmo TIL that Einstein’s brain was stolen and at one point was chopped into pieces and stored in a cider box under the thief’s beer cooler.
9YlDB TIL that digital cameras were developed so spy satellites could send images back to earth more quickly. Before digital cameras in 1976, spy satellites used film. After the film was shot, the satellites loaded the footage into capsules and dropped them from orbit into the atmosphere for collection.
mxbvo TIL the phrase "Kick out the jams!" wasn't supposed to be a countercultural slogan - it was just something the band MC5 shouted to the band playing before them to make them stop jamming and let MC5's show begin.
W7N19 TIL that since 1953, a Italian regional bank called Credito Emiliano has accepted giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral for small-business loans. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, the bank stores and ages the wheels in climate-controlled vaults for the duration of the loan.
LkB7d TIL Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher's now wife) in separate movies in the same year.