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TIL that the modern shipping container's invention is owed to Malcom McLean, a former truck driver who saw a need to ship goods in a more innovative way. By taking a truck trailer's box and inventing a system revolved around getting it from port-to-port, the shipping container was born.

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Z8oAR TIL that the first ever phone to run in an Android system is the HTC Dream also known as HTC G1 or T-Mobile G1, as it was set to revolutionize the smartphone market. Aside from running in an Android system, it had 3G support and 3.2 inch screen smartphone and it was released in 2008
4Xpva TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.
9wNmr TIL that Body Dysmorphic Disorder has been historically diagnosed, one case including the ‘Wolf Man’ (1886-1979) who was so preoccupied with his nose, and believed that it was so ugly that he avoided all public life and work.
jbJn TIL, during the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon’s estranged father was a dishwasher and got an opportunity to record a song. John was furious at his father’s attempt to cash in on his success and demanded the song pulled from the charts. It was and the elder Lennon went back to washing dishes.
Z8b9Y TIL: Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth