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TIL That the United States Army is officially designated as a terrorist organization by the Iranian government.

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Z84VQ TIL of an early-twentieth-century novelist named Robert Walser who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a sanatorium and largely forgotten until it was discovered that the tiny, supposedly schizophrenia-induced markings on scraps of paper were actually a novel deciphered in the 1970's
7rd6O TIL: Albert Einstein invented a green refrigerator. It had no moving parts, used not-greenhouse affecting chemicals, and only required a heat source to run.
Avpd TIL The company that made the first real spacesuits for the Apollo program only made women’s undergarments up to that point.
OGkeg TIL that most EOBs don’t include CPT codes 😤
LQXg0 TIL about the July 27th Finnish Holiday National Sleepyhead Day. Which dictates that the last person sleeping in the house must be woken up with water or by being thrown in a body of water.