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TIL Japanese created a smoke alarm for those who can’t hear, that pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air to alert them.

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Bxvr TIL that there was once a competitor to the US Postal Service, called The American Letter Mail Company, which was adored by the public for driving down the cost of mailing parcels and letters but was made illegal because it threatened the ability of the USPS to charge monopoly prices.
pY1AA TIL Two candidates for the 1889 Paris Exhibition were a 300 meter high watering can - or guillotine. Instead the Eiffel Tower won out.
oBXYK TIL that Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the US Civil War, was marginalized due to her dark Welsh complexion, eventually became a Yankee, and accidentally became a good friend of the widow of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
b5BQ TIL that the most dangerous ant in the world is the bulldog ant, which can literally kill humans with its stings within 15 minutes.
gMDw9 TIL There are too many fossil-fuel power plants to meet climate goal of 1.5 C.