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TIL in Japan, the shutter sound of iPhone cameras cannot be switched off–even in silent mode–because the Japanese are so afraid of perverts taking upskirts in the subways

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kObbE TIL of Kenneth Parks. In 1987 he drove 20 kms from his house to his In Laws' in Scarborough Toronto. He stabbed both of them killing his mother & badly injuring his father in law. He was acquitted of the murder charges because he was a Sleepwalker.
QJj4E TIL that nazi symbol has nothing to do with swastika.it was hakenkreuz. Swastika was never mentioned in his book mein kampf. Hitler first saw the Hooked Cross symbol in a Christian monastery (Lambach Abbey) which he attended as a boy. He later adopted it as an emblem for his party.
RALw TIL that George Washington was a redhead.
KOEBG TIL that in 1968, John Lennon, while tripping on acid, called an emergency meeting of the Beatles to inform them that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
N9l1 TIL I learned that the Californian tried to warn surrounding ships about ice but were told to ‘shut up’ by Titanic’s operator 40 mins before collision