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TIL WiFi was invented in Australia by CSIRO scientists and received $220 million dollars from US companies in compensation for using the technology.

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Zp7Vp TIL that long before the I phone, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs Earned money by making and selling "blue boxes:" electronic devices that allowed people (phreakers) to make long distance calls without being charged for them by AT&T.
N7reP TIL almost all coins used in Israel today are based on ancient designs found in archeological digs. The Bank of Israel actually mints coins that are designed to look like ancient Israeli coins from antiquity.
J0vm TIL the Resistance in Amsterdam attacked the population register, which identified religilous belief, with a fire bomb in 1943 to stop the Nazis using it for their extermination program. Fire fighters took as much time as possible to arrive and drowned unburnt parts in water, destroying even more.
x6kJ7 TIL James Nasmyth discovered fine scale solar features, which he painted in detail and called 'willow-leaf-shaped objects in 1860. Now known as solar granulation, their existence was disputed for many years
4XW6a TIL there was a dog officially held as a POW by the Japanese during World War II