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XEM0X TIL in 2002, an elderly Belgian man accidentally set off a booby trap he had set up to kill his family. This resulted in him getting shot in the neck. Detectives ended up finding a total of 19 traps the man had set up in the house.
xVl1B TIL a lottery scratcher in England was cancelled because too many customers could not figure out which is the higher of two negative numbers
BrEky TIL that because of Uranus’ axial tilt, it “rolls” around the sun like a marble. It’s poles each experience 42 years of light and 42 years of darkness during the summer and winter solstices.
DyOp TIL there’s a video game where the main character is blind, so you play the whole thing with a black screen, having to carefully listen to the sounds to navigate the story.
Gm01 TIL that Paris Metro trains drive on the right rather than the left and its tunnels are narrower than main-line ones in order to prevent it from being absorbed into the national railway network