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TIL During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, tourists made bookings at the wrong Vancouver in Washington

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WEdX TIL that the Nicholson Electroplating bomb from the LA Noire DLC pack is not only possible, it actually happened in 1947- at an electroplating plant inLos Angeles
E1r1X [TIL] Losing an hour of sleep after daylight savings results in a 24% increase of heart attacks whereas gaining an hour of sleep after daylight savings results in a 21% reduction of heart attacks.
neLAb TIL that each one has a unique cardiac signature that can be used as biometrics similar to fingerprinting and retina scan
BrZrb TIL about a glitch in World of Warcraft that helped real world epidemiologists study how people react during the outbreak of a disease.
gjd7 TIL Effiel tower has names of seventy-two French scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved in recognition of their contributions around its sides