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TIL that Tesla vehicles have a "biodefense" mode that is helping people during wildfires.

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69xEm TIL the ADSL broadband protocol is so robust it can transfer data at reasonable speed over a literal wet string
b6bd7 TIL about Ludger Sylbaris, a jailed Martiniquais sailor, who survived the 1902 Mount Pelée eruption that claimed ~30,000 lives, because his stone-walled, bomb-proof underground cell acted as a makeshift bunker.
WkaO8 TIL Some hummingbirds have teeth.
KLdw TIL That Cats go crazy around catnip because it contains a chemichal that is found in dominant female cat’s piss.
LQWRm TIL that actress Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone, Christopher Guest mockumentaries) has situs inversus, a rare condition where organs are mirrored from the typical left/right positions in humans.