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TIL about the 'Jaipur Foot', an ultra low-cost Indian innovation for prosthetic limbs. Around 2.4 million have been distributed for free across 27 countries since 1975. The charitable organisation was founded by Devendra Raj Mehta, an ex-Deputy Governor of the RBI and is fully funded by donations

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Lo9V TIL when the head of The Piratebay, Peter Sunde, was arrested he asked to phone his girlfriend so she could lock the doors of his house before going with the policeman. The policeman said yes. Instead, he pushed a button on an app that immediately encrypted all servers of The Piratebay.
4dAJ TIL that in 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine.
0dQvj TIL that before Pope Clement VIII's endorsement of coffee, coffee was considered satanic by many people
vPxW7 TIL high heels were originally worn by men, mainly for horseback riding and status display.
K8Q9 TIL that Morgan Freeman is the only American to ever par the longest and highest par three golf hole in the world.