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TIL that Madame de Pompadour, one of history's most famous mistresses, worried about her frigidity

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epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.
oBvV7 TIL that radio was broadcast live until the late 1940s because of how bad recorded phonograph discs sounded. Prime time shows had to be performed twice in the U.S., once for each coast.
e0oEg TIL Some of the first aerial photographs of Earth were taken by pigeons - the drones of the 20th century. A technique invented in 1907 by Nebronner in Germany, they were used in both world wars and later by the CIA
PGYO TIL: Belladonna or deadly nightshade was used in eye-drops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear seductive.
7rPdO TIL that Devin Gaines earned 5 bachelor degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits a semester and 3 hours of sleep a night. He drowned in 2007 because he didn't know how to swim.