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TIL that the auditory and visual hallucinations along with many other symptoms of acute carbon monoxide poisoning are probably the cause of haunted houses and ghost stories.

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PYbDn TIL Juice Jacking is a type of cyberattack where public USB charging points double as data connection points, installing malware or copying data. Free USB charging points can be used to steal your data.
awrYL TIL India has an estimated 47 million runaway youths. Familial mistreatment, and disapproval over love lives, are cited as some of the main reasons for why they run away. In rural areas, if an eloping couple is caught, the boy may face an assault charge from the parents of the girl.
bBkj TIL Apple computers are a rarity in Japan
K0gJ TIL in 1800s in Wyoming, cattle barons hired killers to kill small settlers, when sheriff posse cornered them, the US President ordered the 6 th cavlary to rescue the trapped killers from law enforcement.
yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.