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TIL Silicone oil leaches out of remote control buttons and gradually makes the controller less responsive

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69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.
ZrE4 TIL The HTTP status code for “Unavailable for legal reasons” is 451, in honor of Fahrenheit 451
lKA TIL the Constitution of South Korea applies to all Koreans, so any North Koreans who manage to defect get citizenship.
gr8ZX TIL beavers are a keystone species, which means they play an important role in ecosystems by modifying the area in a way that is beneficial to plants and animals
xV6aB TIL when a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell claiming the chain's seasoned beef filling isn’t beefy enough to be called beef by USDA standards, the chain spent $3-$4million to defend its beef filling as ‘high quality’ & insisted that the product is actually 88% beef.