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TIL that smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years

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4XdLg TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
Brk4W TIL Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is sung in Japan at the end of every year, and the first time it was sung in the country was in a POW camp in 1918 by German prisoners
QjKE TIL in 2005, Sony illegally installed rootkits on 22 million computers to prevent the users from ripping copyrighted music, and could not be uninstalled. It also reported user’s listening habits back to Sony. Ironically, the code itself contained open source software, and so infringed copyright.
LkP4r TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore
jjaQ TIL It is cheaper to fly to the USA from Australia to buy Adobe’s Creative Suite than to buy it within Australia