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TIL that Chindōgu is the practice of inventing gadgets which serve a purpose but are impractical or silly. A term coined by Kenji Kawakami with some early Chindōgu including a toilet roll dispenser you wear on your head for hay fever sufferers and glasses with inbuilt funnels for eyedrop application

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owyW TIL three words in English use ‘w’ as a vowel: cwm, a hollow in a mountain; crwth, an instrument similar to a violin; and cwtch, a hiding place.
D1EkP TIL that if calcium crystals form in your inner ear canal, resulting in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (dizziness when you move), you can easily cure it by moving your head about like you're one of those maze ball toys.
oBLvL TIL Rugby peaked in popularity in Germany shortly before WW2 with them beating France twice and with the Nazi Minister of War, Albert Speer being a big proponent of the sport. It was decimated after WW2 when a majority of the German players had died
JY6ml TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders
PYAoO TIL there is a law in over 9 US states that forbids registered sex offenders from handing out candy or having Halloween lawn decorations on Halloween night