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

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4X476 TIL that after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said NBA referee manager Ed Rush "wouldn't be able to manage a Dairy Queen", Dairy Queen management took offence and offered to let Cuban manage a Dairy Queen for a day. Cuban accepted.
dgBB TIL that while sleeping our sense of smell is turned off, meaning it cannot alert us to dangers such as a fire since we cannot be awoken by the smell.
1aQ9d TIL that the first computer programmers were women
00kj TIL that more than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.
LZVV TIL as soon as 2100 Humanity could begin to suffocate due to an average 6 degree Celsius increase in temperature disrupting the process of photosynthesis in two thirds of the world’s oxygen producing organisms.