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TIL many household appliances have a “Sabbath mode” that, when activated, allows the user to operate the appliance within the constraints of Jewish religious holidays by disabling certain functions of the appliance.

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JYBQk TIL one of the Soviet space dogs' puppy, Pushinka, was given by Khrushchev to Kennedy as a gift. One of Kennedy's dog, Charlie, took a liking to Pushinka, resulting in the birth of four pups referred jokingly by Kennedy as "pupniks".
b6JG4 TIL- You can get a "Christmas Tree Permit" for White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire to Clark Griswold your own perfect tree
xyb0 TIL that even though dynamite plays a big part in the ending of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, dynamite wasn’t actually invented until almost a decade after the time period in which the film was set.
oweE TIL there was an illegal crematorium disguised as a ceramics plant. It was discovered when a man calling in to complain about the smell said,“Don’t tell me they’re not burning bodies. I was at the ovens at Auschwitz.”
X0kej TIL obstetric forceps saved more lives than any other [medical] instrument