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TIL A researcher has hacked pacemakers and can kill you from his laptop within a 30 ft radius

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LXxV TIL That Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.
mxprp TIL that botox is the deadliest substance on earth, a few kilos of it enough to kill every human on the planet. In cosmetics, it is given in quantities a billionth of a gram large. It is also the most expensive substance on earth, costing £100trillion per kilo.
r1aM TIL That the Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong was home to 33,000 residents all of which lived in hundreds of interconnected high rise buildings crammed into a 210m x 120m space. The construction was so dense that sunlight didn’t filter down to the lower levels. Photos in link.
0VRL TIL There’s a charity in the UK called The Lucy Faithfull Foundation that aims to treat paedophiles before they offend.
XNP6 TIL that a neutron star’s gravitational field is so strong, it bends light such that we can see more than half of its surface at once