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TIL that baking (that’s right, oven-baking) your MacBook’s motherboard is a valid option for restoring system failure. Verified this last night. Works like new!

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MerNK TIL Florida repealed its helmet law in 2000. In the 30-months after, helmet use in Florida dropped from 99% to 53%. The number of riders under 21 who were killed (despite still being legally required to wear a helmet) nearly tripled, from 35 to 101. Hospitalizations increased by 40%.
9w7mX TIL that Wally "Famous" Amos first worked as a talent agent and signed Simon & Garfunkel. He would attract clients by sending them chocolate chip cookies along with an invitation to visit him.
WKy9 TIL that there are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire finnish population to take a sauna at the same time
xBmb TIL You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year.
1vJX TIL that comedian Louis C.K. is a Mexican Jew raised in Mexico City until the age of seven, Spanish is his first language, and he still retains a Mexican citizenship.