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TIL Businesses exist that allow you to smash glassware and electronics for a price.

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DR8v TIL in California, regardless of store policy, gift cards with a value less than $10 are redeemable in cash.
9yQB TIL: A doctor saved the life of a premature baby (Chris Trokey). 30 years later Chris, who was a paramedic was the First responder to an accident, saved the Dr.’s life that had saved him.
ANwjw TIL that horror films often include infrasound, which is below the audible range for humans. Even though we can’t hear it, our bodies can detect it, causing anxiety, palpitations, and tremors.
P1nVO TIL you can have a negative magnitude earthquake. Magnitude calcs are based on logarithmic scale so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 mm as measured on seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake then 1000 times less (0.02 mm) is mag -1.
orN8 TIL, 90% of U.S. media: television, radio, news; is owned by only 6 corporations. One of which owns the top newspaper on 3 continents: The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, and The Australian.