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TIL last year California legislators passed a law that requires smartphones sold after July 1, 2015 to have a remote kill switch built into them.

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AQY7 TIL the world record for non-stop Pushups: 10,507 by Minoru Yoshida, 33 years ago!
GpyG TIL that in the late 1600s London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout “Spanko!” before running away
oRea8 TIL when an individual suffered a cardiac arrest in a rural Minnesotan grocery store, roughly 20 bystanders stood up and performed CPR continuously for over ninety minutes until emergency medical services arrived - remarkably, the individual survived.
N94Q TIL that in 1978, a man was shot clean through the face by a particle beam and is still alive today.
PvoG TIL the Emperor of Japan was historically very young. The duties of the emperor were considered incredibly tedious, and after a decade most emperors abdicated the throne to their younger brother.