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TIL A Parisian man lived in an apartment that measured less than 17 square feet (80 square feet under the legal limit) for 15 years. His rent was 330 euros (or $442).

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LVx9 TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.
LQmRr TIL that cordless, battery-operated power tools were originally created by Black & Decker for NASA so astronauts could perform maintenance on spacecraft, and would become available to the public in 1978
NyLe TIL Tanks from WW1 were originally to be called Landships but the factory workers who were building them referred to them as Tanks because they resembled steel water tanks and the British concerned with secrecy kept that name.
eprP4 TIL sloths only poo once a week and can lose up to a third of their body weight with one poo. They come down from trees and dig a hole to poo in, and no one is sure why they risk their lives to do this
PY9yn TIL that the CIA admittedly disseminated fake evidence of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s to provide "cover" explanations for test flights of the U2 and other stealth aircraft