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TIL The dot placed over the lowercase letters i and j is known as a Tittle

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GAxG7 TIL - The first push-button telephone was commercially introduced by Bell Telephone on November 18, 1963. Prior to this phones operated on a rotary system.
QppE TIL in the 50’s there were so many kid dying from playing in abandoned fridges in the US, they passed the Refrigerator Safety Act. It was so severe troops of people would sometimes search out abandoned refrigerators, detaching the doors and smashing the locks.
dkp9 TIL “Witzelsucht” is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations.
78JWr TIL that the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky
neyNB TIL Snooze lasts 9 minutes for 2 reasons. 1: The original snooze feature had to be worked in around the existing gearing of a clock, and keeping it in single digits was more technically logical. 2: If you sleep past the 10-minute mark, your body falls into a deep, making waking up more unpleasant.