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TIL Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer

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E14vd TIL that Australian scientists accidentally invented Wi-Fi while searching for black holes.
lLYN TIL: After the murder of a director William Taylor, a reporter tried to get a confession out of Taylor’s black valet. Believing that blacks were afraid of ghosts, she lured the valet to a cemetery where a man covered in a bed sheet appeared pretending to be a ghost. The valet then laughed at them.
QNR16 TIL that The Lord of the Rings trilogy won 475 out of 800 film awards, making it the most awarded film series in cinema history.
5GKQ TIL that teenager invented a push-button socket wrench and offered the patent to Sears. Sears told him the patent was valueless and gave him $10,000, then went on to make $44 million selling the ratchets.
lopyK TIL that python 3 rounds 16.5 to 16 which is mathematical rounding. This feels quite counterintuitive when you have learned bankers rounding early in school. Bankers rounding is apperently biased towards the bigger number so mathematical rounding makes more sense for greater amounts of data.