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TIL: During the 2000 United States Senate Election in Missouri, incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft lost to a the Democratic Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan, who died in a Plane Crash Three Weeks before Election Day

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xV68w TIL that thermostats sense the temperature with a strip of two different metals fastened together. Because the metals expand at different rates, it causes the strip to curve, breaking or completing the circuit at different temperatures.
eW4L TIL that in order to evade internet censorship in China, people used to refer to the events that took place at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 as “May 35th”, among many other alternative names
5Yprp TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms.
n1Ar TIL in their latest film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.
ZpgkG TIL that there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solvable Sudoku grids