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TIL Japanese researchers have created a fire-alarm for the deaf. It’s a gadget that emits a wasabi mist which will wake the endangered person and get them out of the building alive!

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a8YKA TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.
6yKX TIL The Simpsons Movie is banned in Myanmar due to an edict banning the usage of the colors red and yellow in film
VkL0 TIL In 1968 a car, transporting 300M Yen (9M USD) was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming that the car had been rigged with explosives. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the ‘cop’ just drove away. The robbery remains unsolved.
1aaV8 TIL In 2008, a British 19-year-old officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."
Ogy7 TIL the Aztecs once fed 200K people in inarable swampy land by creating floating gardens they farmed extensively