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TIL that when the key on push to start cars dies, you can hold the remote up to the button and it will turn on the ignition

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e0Pg TIL there is a Son of Sam law designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes, and first used against the serial killer David Berkowitz
wLWJ TIL Curiosity’s minimum uplink rates to Earth are 160bits/sec and 800bits/sec, depending on the antenna it is targeting on Earth.
K8BQ TIL sometimes people fall when they’re shot because of a psychological predisposition to. Not because of any immediate physical reason, even if shot in the heart voluntary movement is capable for 10-15seconds.
mx45y TIL of Gen. Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish con man who ran the “Poyais Scheme,” in which he convinced the entirety of the UK that he was the head of the (non-existent) paradise-like Kingdom of Poyais, going so far as to write a constitution for Poyais and establish several Poyais embassies in the UK.
VQWD TIL that the CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots, when interviewed about this he said “We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics.”