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TIL Wristwatches were originally designed to be worn inside your wrist, not outside.

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b6l04 TIL One of the first victims of the Nazis was Dora Ritcher, a transwoman who was the first to through male to female gender reassignment surgery
nZK9 TIL there is a ‘noticeable change’ in British accents every 25 miles. 38% of British people feel as though they have difficulty being understood by other Brits.
nW8b9 TIL: There is a study on hobbies which categorizes them from the best to worst in terms of happiness to cost ratio. The most expensive are traveling ($630), Collecting ($287), and Cooking ($240). Video games only cost $71 monthly in comparison.
69RB8 TIL about Georg Carl Tänzler, alias Count Carl von Cosel, a radiology tech that became so obsessed with a TB patient that he dig up her corpse and lived with it for seven years.
jkpQ TIL that the longest tank-to-tank kill in history occurred when a Challenger tank destroyed an Iraqi T-62 at a range of 5100 metres (over 3 miles)