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TIL the 9 minute alarm clock "Snooze" is a holdover from when clocks had mechanical gears

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pxdQ TIL: There’s a subway ticket machine in Moscow that accepts 30 squats as payment. Installed ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics to “bring sports to the people”.
DvpV TIL Woody Harrelson is a supporter of the 9/11 Truth movement and has supported reopening an investigation into the September 11 attacks. Along with other “truthers”, including Martin Sheen and Ed Asner, he will be appearing in a movie, September Morn, that will promote such views
xZ5D TIL A scientist had to name an octopus species. She thought it was “just so cute” she considered opisthatoothus ADORABILis
R5WAl TIL about underwater hockey, also known as Octopush, which is played by holding your breath in a 2 metre deep pool while manoeuvreing a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool using only one hand into the other team's goal with a mini hockey stick/pusher up to 25 metres away at the opposite end
65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.