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TIL Disneyland uses hidden ‘smellitizers’ to fill the air with vanilla scents

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e05gE TIL ladybugs eat gnats! It's easy to buy ladybugs in stores, online, etc.
Y45A TIL in Japan, the shutter sound on phones and camera’s cannot legally be disabled due to rampant “upskirt” offences.
VMQbD TIL the original "laugh track" used in sitcoms was a physical instrument like an organ, was held under lock and key, and was owned and operated by only one man who knew how it worked. Charley Douglass used his "laff box" to create the laugh track for almost every sitcom in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.
1a9PO TIL that during the Danish Colonization of Greenland, missionary Hans Egede found that local Inuit had no concept for what bread was and so he changed the Lord’s Prayer to say “Give us this day our daily seal”.