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TIL Deaf / Blind UK residents cannot serve on jury duty because a translator counts as a "13th person in the room"

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X9KP TIL that Dick is a nickname for Richard because, in Medieval times, one of the customs for coming up with a nickname was to create a rhyme or swap a letter. So Richard became Rick, which rhymes with Dick or Hick. Only Dick has stuck around as a proper name.
e0wrD TIL that India's Mars Orbiter mission had a budget of $73 million, which is less than the budget of big Hollywood movies about space
v166L TIL Martin Couney, an owner of a freak show in the early 1900's invented an incubator to exhibit premature babies, in doing so saved thousands of lives and marked the start of advanced prenatal care for preemies.
WbRB TIL in 2011 a man killed his wife inside of a Walmart and rather than close the store they just roped off the gory crime scene while police investigated.
WkDbA TIL learned that the treadmill was designed as a torture device for prisoners.