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TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors

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VM1BB TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Since few people had phones, viewers would turn their house lights on if they liked a certain song, off if they didn’t. The state energy company recorded the size of each power spike & reported results to the station to determine votes for each contestant.
VkD0 TIL around 85% of people breathe out of only one nostril at a time
ykXV TIL that in Pokemon Red/Blue, the reason you had to go next door to trade in your casino winnings is because of a loop hole in Japanese gambling laws
R5L07 TIL multiple recent studies have shown detrimental roles played by maltodextrin in the intestinal environment, suggesting that this broadly used food additive may play a role in the rapid increased incidence of chronic inflammatory disorders
ame9 TIL Catapults were at times used to fling infected corpses towards defending garrisons back in the middle ages. Causing diseases and plagues, this was the Biological warfare of the time.