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TIL that Bose is majority owned by MIT
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TIL that cleaning a wound with rubbing alcohol is actually harmful to the skin.
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TIL about Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest during WW2. He was taken to Auschwitz where he later took the place of a stranger. Kolbe was starved for two weeks and then killed by an injection of carbolic acid.
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TIL there are species of tiger moths capable of jamming bat ecolocation by producing their own clicks, up to 4500 per second.
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TIL the Florida-based “party rap” group 2 Live Crew holds the distinction of releasing the first sound recording to be declared obscene.
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TIL that the 3 Ninjas franchise was made in part by a South Korean Director, Shin Sang-ok, who was kidnapped and held captive for 8 years by Kim Jong-il.