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TIL that 80% of the close door buttons on elevators aren’t even hooked up.

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YpZWP TIL that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies weren't decomposing properly because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.
xV9N7 TIL Roomba iRobot vacuums create maps of your home, put the info in the cloud where it's vulnerable to hackers and the CEO of the CO has considered selling the info the vacuums collect about your home.
oB0pA TIL The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signals a significant step closer to finding a world similar to Earth
KOmD6 TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening is left handed, and that's why there was a whole episode devoted to Ned Flanders and his Leftorium.
oyX8 TIL in 1977 a plane crashed into Yosemite Park, containing almost 10,000 pounds of marijuana. Local rock climbers were first on the scene and amassed a fortune from the wreckage.