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TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.

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0dpG5 TIL: the key command win + . brings up an emoji menu.
m1kRY TIL in 1980, following a 1978 referendum, Switzerland was Europe's "time island" by delaying Daylight Saving Time until 1981, resulting in a unique six-month period where it lagged an hour behind its neighbors, excluding Liechtenstein, until the Federal Council mandated alignment.
xVxG5 TIL Stanford researchers showed that mealworms can safely consume various types of plastics including toxic additive-containing plastic such as polystyrene with no ill effects. The worms can then be used as a safe, protein-rich feed supplement
BgoYk TIL: Exploding Head Syndrome where a sudden imaginary loud noise startles you awake is related to myoclonus.
d8gbZ TIL Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese-American animator and designer behind cartoons such as Scooby-Doo, Penelope Pitstop and several Disney characters, learned his skills as a teenage prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.