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TIL that residential dishwashers have a filter that needs to be cleaned. I don’t know how this escaped me until now...especially considering that I’ve cleaned many a commercial dishwasher filter.

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wr5J TIL: Nintendo made a hands free controller for the NES, the A & B buttons were activated by blowing & sucking, while the D pad was controlled with the users tongue.
dvEr TIL the real-life home that inspired the movie ‘UP’ is a century-old farmhouse whose owner refused to sell it to developers, even for an inflated price of $1,000,000. Having lived there for over 50 years, she was content to let them build a giant biotech complex all around it.
gM9Q8 TIL about eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy. He endured bullying as a result of him deciding to grow his hair out long in order to donate it to kids who lost their hair as a result of cancer.
16avO TIL powdered corn cob is highly absorbent, which has given it applications to treat oil spills in water bodies, and as an environmentally friendly rodenticide, killing rats by dehydrating them.
DQ4dg TIL Bruce Lee had his sweat glands removed from his armpits because he thought sweating there looked bad on camera, and this might have been a factor in his death several months later