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TIL The Mandalorian TV series showed us a Star Wars Bathroom for the first time in their live action productions

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78L1O TIL about the device ADE 651, which was described by its maker, ATSC, as being powered through the user's static electricity to detect explosives and drugs thanks to "programmed substance detection cards". It was bought in Iraq, Pakistan and the USA before the fraud was discovered
XEX7j TIL The Shanghai heroin trade in the 1920s was dominated by two men. One was Chief of Police, the other was head of the government Anti-Opium Board.
VVAp TIL that during the Falklands War, when the HMS Sheffield was sunk by Argentinian missiles, the crew members who made it into the water sang the song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian while they waited for rescue.
BrXdd TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for her local paper about a new Olive Garden. She was mercilessly mocked by the Internet. Anthony Bourdain thought she had a valuable POV on small town dining. So he published a book of her reviews.
16xX TIL Keyboard Cat died in 1987.