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JYBjV TIL British minister Alan Clark once dismissed his colleague Michael Heseltine as the kind of person "who bought his own furniture" (as opposed to someone with 'breeding' who inherits furniture).
gr1QW TIL The maximum magnification of high-performance compound light microscope is 1000x but 2000x is the high end of the performance spectrum
wL88J TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, final leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991, is still alive. He's 87 and just wrote an editorial for the New York Times.
VBngZ TIL that the first recorded vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, an ancient Greek engineer, in the first century AD. It dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin.
OrV7 TIL taking Benadryl causes cognitive impairment equivalent to a BAC of 0.1%, over the legal limit to drive.