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TIL Russians were making color photos over 100 years ago.

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jNGWM TIL Jack Fishman, co-created naloxone in 1961, but it was not widely used for decades. He died in 2013 before seeing the full impact of the crisis and how his invention saved so many lives
DQ10D TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem - which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock - his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.
v1XBD TIL Antibacterial soap is no better than regular soap at preventing sickness, and children who use it regularly are more likely to develop peanut allergies and hay fever.
awoZo TIL about Sounding, the act of inserting a metal rod into your urethra. Sounding tubes are meant to be used medically, but some people figured out that they experience sexual pleasure from the act.
9wZ07 TIL Grand Island and Navy Island, near Niagara Falls was a proposed location for the UN headquarters