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TIL MIT engineers created a wearable vest that hooks to and e-book and can change the lighting, sound, temperature, chest tightness, and heart of the reader so they can experience what the character in the book is feeling.

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PX0E TIL That ‘District 9’ is the outcome of the failed 'Halo’ movie
VBVB8 TIL that Thuy Trang, the actress who played the original yellow Power Ranger, was one of the Vietnamese boat people who left Vietnam on a boat after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War
gAOb TIL that modern fears about masturbation’s effects date back not to the Bible, but to a 18th century tract published in London by a quack surgeon and occasional soft-core pornographer
b60E9 TIL that the Danish word for "Pimp" is "Alfons," after the protagonist in the play Monsieur Alphonse by Alexandre Dumas, fils. As a result, although "Alfons" is the name of popular children's book character, the name remains very rare. As of 2016, there were only 8 people named "Alfons" in Denmark.
Xk1k TIL that when studying sea anemones off the coast of Yemen, researchers discovered that there’s no natural enemy for the Yemeni anemone.