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TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes

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YAWW TIL NASA has developed a technology called FINDER used to detect breathing or heartbeats through up to 30 feet of rubble, or 20 feet of solid concrete, and was used to save lives during the 2015 Napal earthquakes.
grWx8 TIL about South Africa's Meerkat Radio Telescope Observatory and their impressive efforts to capture the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using radio waves.
kRZm TIL the eighth commandment is interpreted as “Thou shalt not steal” in Christianity and as “Thou shalt not kidnap (people)” in Judaism. Which is not to imply that theft is permitted: it is forbidden elsewhere in the Tanakh.
X0nZ8 TIL that some people experience "exploding head syndrome" when falling asleep, where a small noise can trigger the sensation of loud static and a flash of white light.
neOad TIL in 2013 , 'Sweetie' the animated avatar of a 'fictional' 10 year filipina girl was used in a Webcam child-sex sting Operation to identify over a thousand pedophiles from all over the world