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TIL Your phone’s PIN/passcode is protected by the 5th Amendment

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aw8QJ TIL that there are scented bowling balls and, contrary to rumor, the creator came up with them because bowling pro shops are stinky places.
n6l7 TIL that there is an electric eel named Miguel Wattson in Tennessee Aquarium that sends pre-written tweets (@EelectricMiguel) whenever it emits electricity at a certain threshold.
Rxk9 TIL there is the machine which consists of twelve pairs of worms and gears. The input gear makes 4 revolutions in a minute and the output gear thus makes 1 revolution in 2.3 trillion years and is embedded in a block of solid concrete. This machine represents time frames astrophysicist deal with.
WOmX TIL that before she became the first animal sent into orbit Laika (a stray dog from the streets of Moscow) was taken home by a Russian scientist to play with his children. He said, “I wanted to do something nice for her; she had so little time left to live”.
7rvxL TIL that unlike chicken eggs, quail eggs do not have salmonella due to their higher body temperature