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TIL Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair.

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yrOM TIL the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” was originally “care killed the cat” and had a little used second part “but satisfaction brought it back”
KopQ TIL in 1969, GM experimented with steam power and even built a steam powered Chevelle
5NMR TIL in the 1980’s, over 6,000 Hemophiliacs living in the US were given HIV-tainted blood by health care companies still active today.
9YL5D TIL: Laugh tracks were the invention of a sound engineer named Charles Douglass, whose Laff Box machine helped him corner the market during the golden age of TV.
Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”