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TIL The first person to hear Journey’s “Only the Young” was terminally ill, 16 year old Kenny Sykaluk, who died the next day still holding the Walkman in his hand

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gMnaX TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day.
e07vg TIL early Antarctic explorers used a novel treatment for snow blindness- cocaine.
v1BEx TIL It is illegal in Taiwan for children under two years old to use a smartphone or watch TV
R70V7 TIL that in the time before user accounts and passwords, computers used physical locks & keys to prevent keyboard input, access to the hard drive, or other unauthorized access.
nM6d TIL it would take 260,000,000,000 balloons to lift The Pentagon