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TIL that a one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror

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WkgBN TIL Floyd Paxton was eating complimentary nuts and realized he didn’t have a way to close them if he wanted to save some for later. As a solution, he took out a pen knife and hand-carved the first bread clip out of a credit card. His company, Kwik Lok, produces billions of bread closures a year.
oB0Er TIL That at the 1999 US Open, Phil Mickelson’s caddie wore a beeper the whole tournament awaiting a message that Phil’s wife was about to go into labor with their first child. Phil also had a private jet on standby at a nearby airport to get to the hospital for the birth.
D1aaJ TIL that Halle Berry earned a extra $500,000 to flash her breasts in Swordfish.
N7YG1 TIL that in 1951 the St. Louis Browns used Eddie Gaedel, a little person, to pinch hit for an easy walk. It was the first and last time a little person played in a Major League Baseball game.
nex4d TIL the "flourish of approval" is a check mark like symbol only used in the Kingdom of The Netherlands and its former colonies