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wL0OY TIL Australian medical pioneers, doctor Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth, developed the first artificial pacemaker in the 1920s. Lidwill even used the invention in 1928 to revive a stillborn baby, who went on to make a full recovery.
vVN7 TIL there is a site where you can combine LEGO sets to find out what else you can build
xVLaw TIL that Koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans that if unknowingly checked by a forensic scientist they wouldn't even know that they weren't human prints.
kDZW TIL of the phrase “Atari Democrat,” a nickname given in the early 80’s to legislators pushing support for development of high-tech businesses to stimulate the economy and job growth
x69l0 TIL that during World War 2, any Allied Prisoner of War in a German camp could write to Rolex and request a wrist watch without immediate payment. Rolex would send them a watch and save the bill for after the war.