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TIL Using facial recognition software, an airport’s vending machine dispensed free coffee for anyone who yawned

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kJO0e TIL that in 1715, Jacobite rebels attempted to storm Edinburgh Castle. The ladder they brought was too short, so the attempt failed, and they were all arrested.
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