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TIL thermal and night vision sniper scopes are illegal in California

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neXG7 TIL 5 teenagers died after a fire in escape rooms in Poland. Poland’s interior minister then ordered fire safety inspections at more than 1,000 escape room locations across the country. Previously, there was no official requirement for fire safety certificates at such locations.
vP5GB TIL: The original penguins or Great Auk was a species driven to extinction by man. Scientists in the 1600s noticed and tried to prevent it through numerous laws, it failed. In 1840 the last auk in Britain was beaten to death with sticks as the men thought it was a witch causing storms.
ADe5d TIL that legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick thought the 1988 film The Vanishing (or Spoorloos in its original Dutch titling) was the most terrifying film he had seen – even more frightening than his own The Shining. After seeing it, he called the film's director to discuss editing techniques.
0p6v TIL some mussels lure fish into biting their fake fish replicas, only to squirt their younglings into their mouths, parasitizing them until fully formed. [3:46]
vPdWL TIL about the de Bothezat helicopter, a quadcopter that was built by the US army in the 1920s and was considered at the time to be the first successful quadcopter.