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TIL a one-way mirror, which is a mirror that appears reflective from one side and transparent from the other, is also called a two-way mirror.

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Me4K0 TIL that Muhammed Ali was first directed to take up boxing at the age of 12 after his bicycle was stolen. Police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin met him fuming over the theft. Ali told Martin that he was going to “whup” the thief. Martin told him that he had better learn how to box first.
PQAe TIL that 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
b6okE TIL - The Hamilton Pulsar P1 was the first digital watch, launched in 1972 for $2100 (>$12,000 today). Later in the 70's digital watches were around $10, and in the 80's they were given away free in cereal boxes.
d8nMZ TIL that there is a $200k reward for anyone who can prove that the source code MS-DOS was copied from an older OS called CP/M.
XEebP TIL that, although the ancient Greeks had a myth in which Prometheus is tied to a rock and his liver is eaten every day by an eagle, we did NOT actually learn about "liver regeneration" (the liver's remarkable ability to regenerate itself) until the 19th century.