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TIL First Computer Bug was an Actual Bug

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ep4X5 TIL that Australians sell a product called "sonic animal guards" (colloquially known as "kangaroo scarers").
VMBgm TIL The Hawkhurst gang were a group of smugglers in England, who by the late 1840s had developed unprecedented power, and were a law unto themselves for over a decade. They boasted they could assemble 500 men in the space of a couple of hours.
QJaZe TIL as steel wires in tires become magnetized with use, rotating tires create a magnetic field.
E1vX7 TIL - Climax, New York is a hamlet in the town of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, United States
VMGV0 TIL that Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with his former lover Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav, that in 1918 he commissioned a life-sized fetish doll that he wished to 'embrace'. He was dissatisfied with the doll but did several paintings of it. Eventually, he beheaded it.