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TIL Korean women look for holes, locally known as Molka, in public (or private) restrooms and cover them with toilet paper since those holes usually contain spycams that record them.

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kODMe TIL during a car accident a sodium azide pellet is ignited by an internal car sensor and explodes generating toxic/highly-explosive gas at a 250 mph velocity which undergoes a series of chemical reactions before turning into a non-toxic, stable silica glass... and that's how your airbag is inflated.
4wYo TIL Greenland got its name because the Viking who discovered it was banished from Iceland and felt lonely in his new homeland, so he named and advertised it as the lush ‘Greenland’ to attract settlers, despite the fact that it was actually a completely barren and largely uninhabitable land
Yp8Jx TIL actress Jennifer Connelly inspired Princess Jasmine's appearance in 'Aladdin'. The final appearance of Jasmine consequently inspired the studio to redesign Aladdin based on actor Tom Cruise because Disney felt the original depiction was 'too scrawny' to have believable chemistry with Jasmine.
WkWvX TIL although Colonel Sanders is an iconic southerner he moved to Toronto in 1965 and lived there until his death in 1980.
l7NnN TIL that highest ever bird strike was recorded at the height of 37,000ft (11,470m)