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TIL The first pacemakers had to be plugged into the wall and would fail if there was a blackout.

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gn5b TIL the current CEO of Cinnabon is a 35 year old women that formerly worked at Hooters and worked her way up the ranks
PYN6L TIL of several monstrous mountains with peaks that have never been touched by man. Due to remoteness, legality, etc.
WbyY TIL every generation in history has viewed their children’s generation as inferior and lazy
6V1J TIL Otto von Bismarck predicted World War I twenty years before it happend, and Germany’s downfall and defeat, almost to the month
7reer TIL Kintsugiis the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.