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TIL The first Android phone ever released did not have a 3.5mm headphone jack. That was back in 2008.

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epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
Q97X TIL that 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
d8VoB TIL that the discovery of elements 95 and 96 (americium and curium) was first announced by physicist Glenn Seaborg on the children’s radio show Quiz Kids, in response to one of the children asking whether any new elements had been discovered at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the war
rRj0M TIL the Carrier Dome in Syracuse sported sixteen 5 foot diameter fans around the clock. Increasing the power of the fans boosts the air pressure in the facility, adding tension to the roof’s fabrics and cables to help avoid entire stadium from collapsing from weight of winter snow
VVOQ TIL ordering a “black and tan” in Ireland will get you kicked out of a pub, as British paramilitary troops wore Black and Tan uniforms .