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TIL After it's failure, Atari sold its Jaguar case design to a manufacturer of dental imaging devices. The design was used it to create a dental camera.

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nWdDP TIL the meaning of Kraftwerk's song "Radioactivity" has evolved since debuting in 1976: it started as an observation of radioactivity being "in the air for you and me", then by 1992, had become an anti-nuclear protest with new lyrics. By 2012, "Fukushima" was added to the list of named disasters.
oBjL7 TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
Lk6pZ TIL in 1993, Canada’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, the Airborne Regiment, brutally tortured and murdered a teenager. Once they returned, they were prosecuted, the regiment disbanded, and Canada’s military spending was reduced by 25%.
ZpvlQ TIL about Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.
yP4X TIL there are DVDs that look and smell like pizza when you are done watching them.