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TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.

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x4G1 TIL: in 2010 a man had live explosives on his bag for three days unknowingly, when he got a phone call and a bomb squad showed up at his home. The explosives were placed and forgotten on his bag during an airport security exercise.