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TIL the fear of palindromes is aibohphobia

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e0M8D TIL elevators in America (ADA compliant) they need to make an audible ding when going up. And double ding ding when going down. Many elevators also make a noise when at the ground floor. For many blind people this is a lifeline which enables them to use elevators.
7rO7M TIL the first man to get an implanted heart pacemaker in 1958 had it replaced with 21 subsequent models.
WVZA TIL that each year, on the 1st of August, at 17.00 people living in Warsaw stop for one minute to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising. And it looks awsome.
xJj5 TIL the highest temperature ever set by humans was produced in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. It was close to 10 trillion degrees farenheit, over 370,000 times the temperature of the sun’s core.
wnAW TIL an orangutan named Chantek was raised as a human child. He mastered sign language and understands the value and use of money and work, choosing to spend his earnt ‘money’ on his favourite fast food, hamburgers.