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TIL that during WW2, American scientists debated bombing Japanese volcanoes in order to cause massive lava eruptions

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wvaP TIL of Locksmith Scam: people using Google Ads to advertise $15 service, then claiming the service is harder than they thought, bumping the price to $350
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aDDZ TIL that the NES gun used in duck hunt worked by you pulling the trigger, making the screen flash, surrounding the ducks (targets) in white and the diode in the gun begin reception. The photodiode in the gun detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a target.
D0Gg TIL George Carlin was nearly aborted, but his mother change her mind minutes before the procedure.
VBWBp TIL that the "do" in the name Hokkaido is 道 as in "province" or "road", not 島 as in "island" (which sounds similar in Chinese but not in Japanese)