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TIL we raise our right hand when we are sworn-in because convicts who previously recieved leniency from the court were branded on their hands so that they wouldn't receive it again

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KxKJ TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
D1VJJ Til that humans and cats have identical brain regions for emotion
NXBx1 TIL That casino/real estate owner Steve Wynn was about to sell one of his Picasso portraits to someone but accidently put his elbow through the canvas when showing it to some guests reducing its value by $54 million.
VXP4 TIL NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead
1admV TIL that in the early 1970s, the US and China engaged in "ping-pong diplomacy," in which players from each country would compete with each other at table tennis. This form of diplomacy was a key way of defusing Sino-American tensions, and led to Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.