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TIL THAT Lewis H. Latimer created the carbon filament light bulb that improved Edison’s initial prototype.

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6rBm TIL a drug exists that has been shown to prevent HIV infection at a 92% success rate for gay men and a 70% success rate for intravenous drug users, but less than 1% of at-risk people currently take the drug and only 1/3 of primary care doctors have even heard of it.
wdKJ TIL a guy cut off the head of his pregnant wife’s lover with a knife in a phonebooth and delivered it to her bedside while she was in the hospital
LQL0m TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA
Z87LR TIL William the Conqueror’s victory at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066 forever changed the way that English itself was spoken because it introduced French as the language of government & business which was eventually blended w/ Old English and became modern English.
LQWbZ TIL that Todd McFarlane, toy company tycoon and creator of the "Spawn" comic, once also directed a Grammy-winning music video for the nu metal band KoЯn.