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TIL Smoking Near an Apple Device Will Void the Warranty

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p88XZ TIL that the only kid got poisoned from eating a Halloween candy got it from his dad.
69E58 TIL the cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets a gas mileage of 437 gallons per mile (gpm), or 12 feet per gallon
WkKVX TIL the term "Genericide"- That if a Trademark begins being used as a generic term for other items of it's kind to the point where it becomes the more common term for the item than the items generic name, the Trademark can be removed. Escalators used to be a trademark but this happened with them.
grjPL TIL Thomas Jefferson once spent $1400 (in today's dollars) just to ship a stuffed moose to France to prove that America had large animals
R7pNw TIL In 2001, the FBI's computer system was so antiquated that it had no access to the internet and no digital search capabilities.