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TIL the first dentist who used a common organic solvent we now call "ether" as an anesthetic, William Morton, was castigated by the 18th-century medical community when he tried to patent it/profit from it.

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Wb84 TIL in 1969 a fictional boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano was shown in movie theaters around the world. They were each filmed acting out every possible fight scenario and a computer used probability data to come to the result of a Marciano win by KO in the 13th.
8GO8 TIL the movie “Space Jam” is technically a sequel to a 1993 Nike commercial.
J1wWj TIL that Flash memory got its name because the process of erasing the device called to mind the flash of a camera.
696G7 TIL humans in the form we are now are up to 300,000 years old. Meaning thousands ands thousands of couples had to procreate for you to exist right now.
DYKv TIL a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum.