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TIL of SawStop, a device that will stop a table saw in 1/1000th of a second if it detects a hand

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VMERm TIL that Catholics are forbidden from keeping the ashes of cremated loved ones at home, scattering them, dividing them between family members or turning them into mementos, the Vatican has ruled.
dvk7 TIL That while filming the movie “The Descent,” the scene in which the creatures first came into contact with the protagonists was the first time the actresses had ever seen the monsters. They had no idea what was coming, and their’ screams of terror were real.
5YRan TIL On July 13, 1837 Commodore Thompson of the Republic of Texas Navy raised the single star banner under a 23 gun salute and claimed Cozumel for the Republic
Ve5B TIL special care was taken while restoring Shakespeare’s grave to ensure that his bones remained untouched as the epitaph on his tombstone reads: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones.”
LKxd TIL that one of the Hindu Gods, Ayyappa was born through a Homosexual intercourse between the chief Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva.