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TIL 'Protect and Serve' is a Marketing Slogan -- It's Not Real

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vPDo4 TIL The chances of survival in gladiatorial games were higher than originally thought. In fact, only 1 in 9 fights ended in death.
Qj86 TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” when he saw the name misspelled “Edmond” in Newsweek magazine two weeks after the sinking and felt it dishonored the memory of the 29 who died.
p5Qe TIL there is a form of Kryptonite that can turn Superman gay
bwyQ TIL an intricate, 300 year-old map of the world was discovered wedged into a chimney in Aberdeen to stop a draft. It was delivered to the National Library in Scotland for painstaking restoration.
MeMKA TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.