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TIL in 1987 the first episode of the British youth television show Network 7 featured a live demonstration of how to clone a credit card and showed it working.

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KMrw TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on
VMDMp TIL that birds' navigational abilities may result from quantum mechanics. This theory suggests that the entanglement of 2 electrons on molecules in their eyes helps them detect Earth's magnetic field
ZGv4 TIL that as a child Elon Musk was bullied so severely he once had to be hospitalized because of a beating from other students
NXM4Q TIL Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real person, Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes at least in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and professor at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.
vPe9j TIL that in the USA only 19 states, plus Washington, D.C., make Kindergarten mandatory