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TIL Lego used to bury its used molds in the concrete foundations of buildings to prevent them being reused.

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doLd TIL that mushrooms create their own breeze if there’s no wind to spread their spores
Rlm4 TIL that Google is working on a contact lense for people with Diabetes that will check their blood glucose with their tears (x-post from r/diabetes)
DQ1Ke TIL about the Hamlet chicken processing plant fire, where many workers died because multiple exits were blocked or locked.
b6pN TIL - Pavlov’s House was defended by 25 men for two months against German attacks so frequent that the Russians would have to kick over piles of dead Germans so they couldn’t be used as cover by the next wave.
Br6yr TIL a race condition bug in the Therac-25 (a radiation therapy machine) caused some patients to receive radiation doses "that were hundreds of times greater than normal". The bug arose after technicians became 'to efficient' at entering commands causing code to execute in an unintended order.