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TIL that the video cameras used by the US AIR FORCE to build the first Mixed Reality system 33 years ago fell out of an airplane and smashed to the ground, but still worked!

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dDje9 TIL In the 16th century upper class women wore Visards when outside. The black, oval masks kept their faces from getting tanned, which was associated with the poor. Attached to it was a string with a glass bead a woman would hold in her mouth to keep the mask on.
QJxpE TIL that Georgian troops deliberately torched Abkhazian Research Institute of History to remove any evidence that Abkhazians' lived in their historical homeland
6EnGm TIL When Nigeria gained its independence from Britain in 1960, it was in the main boardroom of the newly constructed Federal Palace Hotel that Nigeria's independence declaration was signed. This boardroom is now one of the main features of the hotel's casino
690w TIL that jazz artist, Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet was bent by an accident one night. However, he liked the sound so much that he continued to have trumpets made that were bent upwards 45-degrees.
WoWB TIL Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night depicts the view outside his sanitarium window, and that he was not impressed with the now beloved work