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TIL People implant magnets in their fingertips to augment their senses and detect electromagnetic fields.

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0dOLv TIL that many Italian recipes with eggs, like Bismarck pizza, took the name from the German Chancellor because during a public speech he said it would take "blood and iron" to effect change but the Italian crowd mistranslated his words as "blood and eggs". Bismarck was known for his fondness of eggs
a5DL TIL that a Harvard Business School research found that sarcasm is the “highest form of intelligence,” as “interpretation and construction of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking.”
lxB5 TIL the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” - Philo T Farnsworth
j686a TIL a British woman was wrongly convicted of murdering her two sons (born 1996 and 1998) when they really died from SIDS. The little-understood disease caused a jury to believe she smothered them to death. After serving 4 years, she was released in 2003. She died in 2007 from alcohol abuse.
mx7ZO TIL That almost all vodka's come from a same place and the only difference is who's adding the distilled water.