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TIL Bill Gates has a pressure sensitive floor in his home. At any time he knows who and where anyone is in his house.

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vae8 TIL when the CDC found that having a gun in your home made it more likely that you would be murdered, the Congress, lobbied by the NRA, effectively banned further federal studies of gun violence.
9wAyM TIL that the phrase "kills 99.9% germs" from alcohol ads make total sense because 0.1% of a population with 1 million germs leaves out not ONE survivor, but 10,000!
awE7Z TIL about the Erikkson twins, sisters who were both knocked down by vehicles on a UK motorway. A TV crew filmed the incidents, and the madness that ensued as one twin stood up and attacked police attending the scene. Days later she stabbed a man to death.
jNVQE TIL The cat Brando pets in The Godfather purred so loudly the actors' voices had to be re-recorded
9YnNr TIL that Cyrillic (the alphabet used to write Russian) wasn't created by Greek monks Cyrill and Methodius. They created the Glagolitic script. A disciple of theirs created Cyrillic with a few Glagolitic letters.