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TIL the original soundtrack of “Who wants to be a millionaire” took the pitch up a semitone for each subsequent question, in order to increase tension as the contestant progressed through the game.

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lLn1 TIL a 12-year-old was awarded $3,000 for finding couple of bugs in Mozilla codebase
R7wGQ TIL A full-time nurse named Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert invented the first home security system in 1966. She was inspired to do so because she saw how long it would take the police to arrive in her neighborhood after a crime was reported.
494o TIL in 2012 only 60 NYPD officers discharged their weapons.(0.17%) Of the 26,091 weapons arrest, 26,000 were completed without an officer firing their weapon. The race stats of the officers who discharged weapons almost directly matches the racial makeup of the NYPD.
69QKw TIL In 1894, the American Railway Union organized a national boycott and strike against all trains hauling Pullman Cars in response to a strike called by workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company. 34 were killed over 2 weeks.
8arEG TIL: Some groups in Thailand train monkeys to collect coconuts sold internationally as the job is dangerous and difficult for ill-equipped humans. The practice has raised ethical concerns.