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TIL the inventor of headphones was picked up by the US Navy after being rejected by private investors.

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wey1 TIL In 2011 Armenia lost internet for five hours after a 75 year old Georgian woman sliced through cables while scavenging for copper.
loNAV TIL that Tolkien’s original version of the Dark Lord Sauron in Lord of the Rings was a giant black cat....“Tevildo the prince of cats”
ep0Jn TIL that the Mandarin Chinese equivalent of the phrase "speak of the devil" is "shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao dao," or "speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao appears," referencing the 3rd century warlord and statesman Cao Cao.
PoVG TIL Joyce Brothers became famous in the 1950’s for becoming the first woman to win the game show The $64,000 Question, despite the fact that the show’s producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway
6E4VY TIL A woman visited the Gorilla enclosure at the Rotterdam zoo on a near daily basis and smiled at the male, Bokito while staring at him. She was warned not to but kept doing it, claiming Bokito smiled back and that they shared a bond, until one day Bokito escaped and charged her, almost killing her