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nex59 TIL that suicide by slitting your wrist only works 1.2% of the time and last for several hours of slow, excruciating pain before you Die.
6WDX TIL Shrimp are referred to as an abomination four times more than homosexuality in the bible
QjbX TIL in 2003, a website called Scroogle was created by Google critic Daniel Brandt, to allow users to search Google anonymously. It stayed active until 2012, where it was shut down by Brandt due to a combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a DDoS attack.
0dY7M TIL Kate Winslet was part of 2 Oscar nominations, where two actors portrayed the same character in a single film. First time for "Rose" in Titanic (1997) being nominated with Gloria Stuart, and 2nd time for "Iris Murdoch" in Iris (2001) being nominated with Dame Judi Dench.
4Q8o TIL that in 2018 the city of Chicago is implementing a surveillance system, called Array Of Things, which monitors climate, traffic, pedestrians, and other urban features.