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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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v1694 TIL within hours of its release in 1993 the video game DOOM was banned from numerous university networks as a rush of players overwhelmed their systems with deathmatches
BBAK TIL that Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero no one should like and force people to like him.
NXMdN TIL about the graniteville train crash. In 2005 two Norfolk trains collided and released enormous amounts of toxic chlorine gas. 10 people were killed and over 250 had to be treated for chlorine gas exposure
OGo5X TIL there is a species of bird that has only been found once. A Red Sea Cliff Swallow was found in Sudan in 1984, and a second bird of this species has never been found. There is not enough conclusive evidence to say it matches any other species of swallow, so it is still listed as its own species.
ZpmXR TIL that because the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures requires that because upper-case letters are only used for units named for people, Ken Woolner was inspired to create a scientist, Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, which would allow people to use L for litre and avoid mixing up l and 1