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TIL Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr did NOT help invent Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or cellphones...

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8wMK TIL When The Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame, they refused to go to the ceremony and called the museum a piss stain.
ne8nB TIL there’s a laser procedure being developed that safely breaks up brown eye pigment (melanin) in the iris. Effectively changing one's eye color from brown to blue, since blue eyes exist under all brown eyes.
R51p1 TIL that while serving as a troopship during World War I, the Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic, rammed and sunk a U-boat that was trying to torpedo her. As the U-boat sank, the Olympic sailed on and did not pick up survivors.
oBP8E TIL when the SR-71 was retired in 1990, it went ahead and set four new world speed records on its way to the museum.
b454 TIL after waiting more than 24 hours for treatment in an NYC psychiatric hospital, a woman collapsed, convulsed, and died in the waiting room and remained there for an hour before anyone checked on her.