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TIL that deaf parents use special vibrating baby monitors or smart watch applications to alert them when babies are crying during the night.

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D1xNj TIL a man had a heart attack at a grocery store in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived and he survived.
9mJG TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.
64d8 TIL that Leonardio DiCaprio used “the drunkest man in the world” video from YouTube as his inspiration for the scene in “Wolf of Wall Street” where he’s crawling to his car after the quaaludes send him into the “cerebral palsy phase”.
neYEW TIL: 19th century investor, Jay Gould, mastered short selling stocks by selling borrowed stocks and then publishing negative rumors about the company he borrowed them from in a newspaper he owned so he could buy the stocks back at a profit.
R5dM8 TIL the world's largest shopping mall is in Iran. (Iran also has the 4th largest.) Kuwait has the second largest. China holds 3 spots in the top 10. The largest mall in the US, The Mall of America, is the twelfth largest worldwide.