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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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Lkypr TIL British-made A.D.E. 651 advertised as a foolproof bomb detector. Tens of millions of dollars’ worth were bought by Baghdad military. They turned out to be pieces of plastic with antennae glued on at the end and their batteries were business cards with the word C4 markered on them.
1vOr TIL in 2010, that Senator Roy Ashburn, who had voted “anti-gay” for all eight years that he was in office, was arrested on a DUI while leaving a bar with another man and now openly admits to being gay.
y8lX TIL Larry Lemieux, a Canadian sailor at the 1988 Olympics, was about to win a silver medal when he abandoned the race to save two other competitors who had capsized. He was given the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship.
Y7Z1P TIL there are incinerating toilets that burn human feces. The excrement is collected in a pan and incinerated, reducing it to pathogen-free ash
m89M TIL that the A5 Processor for Apple’s iPhone and iPad is actually manufactured by Samsung.