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TIL: John Siberch borrowed £20 from Cambridge University and set up the first printing press in the city. He died without repaying his loan which today could stands in the billions – fortunately for any descendants, the original sum was repaid and interest waived by the University in 1971

by whatilearned November 18, 2021, 6:59 pm

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3D printing is a lot like having sex.

by cringeyjokesman October 31, 2021, 9:26 pm

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TIL One of the major themes of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the dangers of the printing press destroying previous forms of art- namely architecture.

by whatilearned October 29, 2021, 4:55 am

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Did Gutenberg actually invent the printing press, or was there someone else who came up with it before him, but isn’t widely known today?

by HistoryBuff October 25, 2021, 7:14 pm

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Employees of printing / personalised gift card companies, what is the strangest image or card you’ve had to print ?

by QuestionGuy August 18, 2021, 2:02 pm

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Will 3-D Printing Revolutionize Medicine?

by DailyHealthNews May 26, 2021, 6:05 am

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FDA Approves First Pill Made by 3D Printing Epilepsy drug Spritam may be one of many custom-made medicines to come that will use the technology

by DailyHealthNews May 17, 2021, 7:45 pm

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3D Printing Safeguards Baby Before Birth New technology took guesswork out of high-risk pregnancy, experts say

by DailyHealthNews May 16, 2021, 9:02 am

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3-D Printing of 'Complex' Human Tissue Scientists say they created tissue with blood vessels that survived for weeks in lab

by DailyHealthNews May 12, 2021, 2:15 pm

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TIL that the reason old pubs have “Ye Old” instead of “The Old” is because when the printing press was invented in Germany, they didn’t have any letters for the old letter Thorn, which made a “th” sound. Thorn ultimately was replaced with Y because they looked similar until the Th start was popular.

by whatilearned April 28, 2021, 7:12 am

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Blood Pressure Check? You May Find an App for That Researchers say they've invented a special phone case, using high-tech 3-D printing, that contains an embedded optical sensor on top of a "force" sensor.

by DailyHealthNews April 26, 2021, 12:52 pm

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TIL Duke researchers have been trying to reverse-engineer vintage saxophone sound, using X-ray imaging and 3D printing. Saxophone mouthpieces from the 1930s to the 1960s were x-rayed and 3D printed but the conclusion was, “Using the same mouthpiece as Coltrane won’t make you sound like him”

by whatilearned April 19, 2021, 8:36 pm

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