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TIL: Sony has patented a contact lens that records what you see

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yV7Zw TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)
7r8YP TIL Isreal is one of the few countries that has mandatory military service for women, and as of 2011, 51% of Israel Defense Forces Officers were women, compared to the United States' 14.2%.
0LBj TIL in 1993 when a US Military food scientist was asked what should be used in the pictograph instructions to prop up the heater of their new “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” rations, he replied “I don’t know. Let’s make it a rock or something.” The rock illustration and the iconic phrase remain on MREs today.
VBQJm TIL: The Atari rat mascot from the mid 1970s named "Big Cheese" (aka "Rick Rat") just so happens to be the very same mouse mascot used by the arcade/restaurant franchise "Chuck E. Cheese".
W7KN TIL that a snozzberry is used by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as a euphemism for male genitalia.