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TIL about Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.

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16Z9W TIL about The Twilight Zone Accident in 1982 where a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash decapitated actor Vic Morrow and two children who were on the ground, and injured six helicopter passengers.
W7yAB TIL British comedian Freddie Starr was accused of eating a hamster by the tabloid newspaper The Sun. Although a complete fabrication, the rumour boosted Freddie's career and led to more tour dates. The rumour had been started by Freddie's manager as a practical joke.
VBRN0 TIL The Super Mario Bros Movie is the highest-grossing video game film adaptation of all time at $1.36 billion, more than triple the runner up's total of $450.1m (Pokemon Detective Pikachu).
MeMrb TIL that the Secret Service has its own ink library which contains over 11,000 samples of ink, from all over the world, dating back to the 1920s.
KOZe4 TIL: During the Siege of Leningrad, when hundreds of thousands starved, the authorities distinguished between two legal categories of cannibalism, those who murdered someone in order to eat them, and those who ate of a corpse that was already dead.