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TIL that British Members of Parliament are not allowed to resign, instead they have to be appointed in the nominal position of ‘Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds’ which disqualifies them from holding office.

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8beL TIL that 93% of occupational fatalities in the US are men, a death rate roughly 11 times higher than that of women
KjW9 TIL Because so many people jumped off the Mapo Bridge in Seoul, Samsung paid to put up signs which would light up and greet people, hoping to deter suicide. Unfortunately, the suicide rate off the Mapo Bridge was six times higher the following year.
vL7j TIL the S Pen in the Samsung Galaxy Note devices doesn’t have its own battery. Instead, it makes use of electromagnetic fields radiating from the device itself to power itself via magnets and electromagnetic currents
4Jmo TIL after days of hiding it from the world, Soviet was forced to acknowledge the Chernobyl disaster after an engineer at a power plant 1000miles away in Sweden surprisingly noticed radiation on his shoes on his way INTO the plant. They traced the wind patterns and reported the location of the source
QalE TIL there is a ‘game’ called Space Engine that simulates the entire universe and allows you to explore all of it. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data. It is crowd-funded, and it’s future goals involve making itself into a full SP game. It supports Oculus Rift.