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TIL most Samsung phones from the past 5 generations have sensors built-in to read your pulse and oxygen levels

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PD8E TIL: There is a 500-year-old Beer Purity Law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding.
LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
m1p7p TIL that the line “ hey soul sister, ain’t that mr. mister” from Hey Soul Sister was in fact not train being a bad lyricist and repeating a word twice but the name of an actual band.
wL7Oo TIL that there is a unit of risk called micromort, which is defined as one-in-a-million chance of death.
XEOOQ TIL Manatees regulate their buoyancy by storing and releasing farts