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TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.

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rRPZ4 TIL about Dumah, the angel of silence and of the stillness of death, in Rabbinical and Islamic literature. Dumah is described as the thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword, having authority over the wicked dead. Dumah is also the Aramaic word for silence.
8an9G TIL the Appalachian Mountains span three countries—the United States, Canada, and France
ZnEa TIL that handwriting has declined so much that 1 in 3 respondents to a UK survey said they had not written anything by hand in the previous 6 months.
OAre TIL: During an interview, Louis CK once directly asked Donald Rumsfeld if he was a flesh eating lizard that fed on the poor. He even asked if he ate Mexican babies…
nyPd TIL that some groups of bolts are “safety wired” together, so if one starts to loosen it automatically tightens the other