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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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4XQAo TIL N.Rothschild had early info that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, and used that info at the London stock exchange: instead of buying, he sold shares en masse, making people think that Napoleon had won and plummeting the stocks. At the last minute he started buying at low prices, thus making a fortune
W7709 TIL about a failed 1850s rival to the telegraph, which involved pairs of snails and the hypothesis that snails formed permanent telepathic links after they had sex.
5VenD TIL Inflatable tanks were used during WWII as decoys.
6EE9Z TIL at the beginning of his performance at Carnegie Hall, Andy Kaufman invited his “grandmother” to watch the show from a chair he had placed at the side of the stage. At the end of the show, she stood up, took her mask off and revealed that she was actually comedian Robin Williams in disguise.
A9Jl TIL: Archie and Marvel’s The Punisher actually had a crossover, in which The Punisher chases an drug dealing Archie lookalike into Riverdale. It is also the “prequel” to the Punisher/Batman crossover.