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TIL according to The Guinness Book of World Records, the toughest tongue twister is 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'.

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XKlX TIL in 1998, Sony inadvertently released a camcorder that could see through clothes. When aimed at people wearing dark clothing, the night-vision feature created an x-ray effect, meaning what ever was beneath became visible. Sony had to recall over 700,000 units after they discovered the issue.
Lk1Wp The "wave of death" - When a driver stops and waves another car through an intersection. This "kindness" can often lead to tragedy.
QZ9a TIL John Mayer became interested in the guitar after watching the prom scene in Back to the Future
Kye9 TIL of the Gibbons twins. Both were published writers of genius intelligence that spoke to no one except each other in their own language. They were committed to an asylum after a crimespree where they made a pact that one should die so the other could live.
YdXB TIL the mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. the creator said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store