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TiL the shutter sounds cannot be disabled on Japanese mobile phones as a means “to prevent secret filming or other privacy issues."

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rRXvy TIL that during WWII, the Germans and the British independently discovered that they could use thin aluminum strips dropped from planes to jam enemy radar, but both sides refused to use this for over a year for fear the other would figure out the technique
7Ge7 TIL Cosmo is over a hundred years old and started out as a literary magazine containing stories and articles from Nobel Prize winners Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. They didn’t give out shitty relationship advice and horrifying sex tips until 1965.
9wO86 TIL that Oppenheimer wrote out a will that left his estate to the University of California to be used for graduate scholarships.
QJL4L TIL Iran pays people to donate kidneys, and has no waiting list for kidney transplantation
nexvP TIL That M&Ms were created to be convenient chocolate for the US Military & were Military-exclusive during WWII