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TIL Barbed wire fences were used for telegraph transmission in rural areas.

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nVgb TIL, in 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the “sabotage alarm” in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed WW3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.
06bM TIL in 2007 CBS released a CSI toy which included a fingerprint dusting powder that contained up to 5% asbestos. Finally, 20 months after an asbestos victims’ organization made this fact public a recall was carried out.
VMj6G TIL that Chrysler owned Lamborghini from 1987 until 1994
7r4LZ TIl that in 1999 George Harrison nearly became the 2nd Beatle to be murdered when an intruder who believed the Beatles were witches broke into his home and stabbed him multiple times and punctured one of his lungs. His wife fortunately fought the attacker off.
rNwby TIL the upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was an about 2,000 years old Judean date palm seed