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TIL shoes were not left or right specific until 1800.

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b9BEN TIL that when you sleep in a new environment your brain stays half-awake
K0Dw TIL 1930’s starlet Hedy Lamarr invented a new technology to stop Nazi’s from jamming Navy torpedoes, but the idea was rejected until 1962 and implemented during the Cold War. Her frequency hopping technology is also the basis for modern Bluetooth.
Lb7v TIL two billion people in the world suffer from iron deficiency (anemia) and that this can be solved by putting a little iron fish into one’s cooking pot.
XGE6 TIL comedian Tom Lehrer once stated: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize”
GAyx5 TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab