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TIL Loneliness has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

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WkQQ8 TIL looking for publicity for his television, John Logie Baird went to the Daily Express to promote it. The editor was so terrified by his invention he said, "Get rid of a lunatic who's down there. He says he's got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him."
RkP8 TIL a sample of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree was sent into space to ‘defy gravity.’
b9rZj TIL If you send junk mail back, the company that sent it is charged for the return postage.
0OV5 TIL that the pacemaker, fridges, WiFi and Google Maps are all Australian inventions.
Oojkg TIL That there was a professional football league in the 80s known as the USFL and fielded a team from New Jersey known as the Generals