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TIL that the Iphone manual says that when using your phone, it should be kept 15 millimetres from your body. BlackBerry suggests that users keep the phone 25 millimetres from their body.

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gr9OX TIL in the 1980’s a Japanese humanitarian doctor in Afghanistan named Tetsu Nakamura who initiated the digging of the Pearl Canal which connects to the Kumar River. The canal supplied fresh water to over 600,000 people.
MeekB TIL that the US wanted to use nuclear explosions in attempt to reform geographic features of an Alaskan village in the 60's
yVl6V TIL that when Larry Ellison divorced his wife Nancy in 1978, she gave up any claim on his new company for $500. That company, Oracle (the database company), made Ellison the world's eighth-richest person ($130 billion as of today).
v1kQB TIL that the first countries to elect females as the head of government were in Asia - Sri Lanka in 1960, India in 1966, and Israel in 1969. The first European country to elect a female head of government was the United Kingdom, in 1979
6Z97 TIL that Cate Blanchett’s Academy Award for playing Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator” made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor