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4kyNR TIL about Scottish inventor, James Bowman Lindsay. In 1835, Lindsay demonstrated an early version of an electric light in public - predating Thomas Edison's invention by decades.
8rgP TIL Americans greatly overestimate the population share of gay, Hispanic and African American people
dl1r TIL that tears cried for different reasons have different structures which are visible when viewed under a microscope.
awvGb TIL the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz would routinely grope and molest Judy Garland during filming, according to her former husband, Sid Luft.
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.