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TIL Smoking Near an Apple Device Will Void the Warranty

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W7OnB TIL that 1 WTC is 1776 ft tall
VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.
R7Okj TIL that college students scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test (NPI) have been trending steadily upward since the mid to late 80s indicating that people are becoming more narcissistic.
781PX TIL that George Orwell was spied on by a Soviet secret agent named Hugh O'Donnell, code-name O'Brien. In a coincidence, (book spoiler) Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to have a spy named O'Brien betray the main character, without knowing about the Soviet spy codenamed "O'Brien."
8a0PZ TIL if you want to support local restaurants, don't use 3rd-party delivery services. Call the restaurant directly to order so they aren't hit with all the fees Uber and Doordash charge them.