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TIL that the first fitted glass contact lens was created in 1888

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4rAJ TIL that a porn star was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987. During office, she offered to have sex with Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region.
e05dJ TIL the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad were not in the original 1001 Arabian Nights, but are believed to have been added by the French explorer Antoine Galland, who heard them from various sources in Europe and implemented the stories into new translations of the Nights.
m1dpM TIL Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of LEGO, taught his son Godtfred a lesson about quality, by making him finish the final coat of varnish on a consignment of wooden ducks by himself. Godtfred had tried to save the company money by only using 2 coats.
YpPLd TIL of Anders Lassen a maverick Danish member of the British Special Forces in WW2. He once filed a 5 word battle report “Landed. Killed Germans. Fucked off”. He also drove a stolen jeep through the hotel he was staying at, into the elevator, and parked in his room. He was awarded the Victoria Cross
lrbB TIL: HIV is no longer a death sentence, the life expectancy for a HIV positive person is almost equal to a HIV negative person.