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TIL Ashton Kutcher is a product engineer at Lenovo and invested in Skype and Foursquare when they were startup companies

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O8rg TIL around 1000 AD the Inca skull surgeons performed “trepanation” a procedure to relieve intracranial pressure on people with head trauma. By 1400 AD the fatality rate of the procedure was down to 10%
X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
LQplZ TIL that fancy tea bags leak billions of microplastics into a cup of tea. The effects of microplastics on humans are largely unstudied, but water fleas weren't happy about it.
p8ybN TIL that Roger Fenton's 1855 Crimean War photo series is the first historic attempt to portray a war campaign with the help of photography
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