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TIL that leaving a Plasma Globe Lamp near a device like a laptop or a phone sends a strong enough radio signal to mess with the functionality of it.

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xVyj7 TIL Jesus exists in the DC comics universe. His list of abilities is just: carpentry.
6bXl TIL in the fiscal year of 2014, the DEA spent an average of $4.20 per marijuana plant they uprooted.
DQAeD TIL that just before WW1 began, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to say ominously, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
BQmr TIL The Censored Eleven, eleven Loony Toons cartoons witheld from syndication in 1968, were only shown past that as a special presention in a single theater in 2010 (Now available on Youtube)
pYZ6p TIL that during WW2, P-51 Mustangs were given wooden wheels at the assembly plant before they made their first test flights.