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TIL that early forensics utilized a now debunked form of pseudoscience called Optography, which was also used in the Jack the Ripper case

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MDDW TIL that it is called a “shift” key because on typerwritters uppercase letters were typed by holding down a key that would literally shift the carriage so that a different part of the type bar—the part on which an uppercase letter was printed—would hit the ribbon.
OGAoY TIL that Lea Thompson, who starred in Howard the Duck, 1986 movie, subsequently married Howard Deutch. She must have a thing for Howard Ds.
oRbE TIL that Donald Rumsfeld ordered a study in 2004 on the cause of terrorism. The findings: “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies… specifically American direct intervention in the Muslim world and support for Islamic tyrannies in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.”
wLMwM TIL: the eye may have evolved, independently, as many as 40 times
wolX7 TIL the Apollo 8 Mission returned from Lunar orbit on Christmas Day and landed safely in the ocean, between Christmas Island and Hawaii, at night