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TIL that a 25 year old Kenyan man invented smart gloves that can convert sign language movements into speech.

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mxeao TIL about the Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße (AVUS) in Germany which opened in 1921 making it the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe, and until 1998 was also used as a racetrack!
pMYQ TIL In order for NASA to have constant communication with the Skylab space station in the 70’s, 8 specially outfitted planes with satellites flew around around the Earth. Each plane would take turns transmitting data until it was out of reach.
oRjP7 TIL a German sexologist, Helmut Kentler, ran state-backed experiments placing foster children with known paedophiles in West Berlin during the 1970s.
xZnD TIL that a man was stoned to death in the bible by Moses and his people for picking up sticks on a sunday
VBkQZ TIL Mordecai Myers was the only member of his family of 15 to survive after their home was swept into the ocean during an 1822 hurricane. He buried each of them himself (including his parents)