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TIL Galaxy watches can measure body fat amounts by sending a low electric current through your arm.

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D10yJ TIL Today 50 years ago the first message was sent over the ARPANET (Internet predecessor). The message being "LO", attempting to send "LOGIN" it crashed after the O.
kR1d TIL in 1977, William Kampiles stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for $3000. He then told the CIA for who he worked what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn’t and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
b9pV9 TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
X0gEQ TIL, that there is a sea slug species where one sexual partner injects the other one it's prostate fluid to it's head.
5YK68 TIL Russell Crowe hated the big speech scene in Gladiator where he confronts Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), unsuccessfully trying to improvise new lines and ultimately saying "It was shit. But I'm the greatest actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good."