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TIL three doctors performed a ten-year study on wedgies, producing a medical paper for Baylor University Medical Center.

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PYNNg TIL We broke the sound barrier before a man summited Mt. Everest. That's a speed exceeding 662 mph, at an altitude of 43,000 feet, in a ROCKET PLANE, four years before a man could climb to 29,029 feet, with the help of a Nepalese sherpa on his 39th birthday.
8ardP TIL that in preparing for D-Day, the Allies fooled Germany into thinking that they would attack Pas de Calais instead of Normandy by creating a phantom army complete with fake landing crafts made from painted canvas and inflatable tanks which they moved over night
E1nP TIL brain-related criteria to identify the death of a patient (i.e. “brain death” = death) is not based on valid scientific data
p8K7b TIL The Americas was the British preferred location for prisoners, and it only became Australia until the US gained its independence.
wLwj1 TIL Nikola Tesla predicted the modern smartphone - in 1926.