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TIL a company that made smart airline suitcases had to shut down operations after several major airlines banned luggage with non-removable batteries to reduce the risk of battery fires. The company claims they had sold around 65,000 suitcases around the time of the ban.

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p8vob TIL a man lived with a bullet in his head for five years after forgetting he was shot at party. When presented with the bullet, the man recalled he had received a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year's party 5 years prior but had forgotten about it because he had been "very drunk"
8LXP TIL that California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.
OGXAa TIL about Clem the only wild american alligator caught in the state of Arizona
0wrZj TIL that, in 1913, a Nebraska man took a butcher knife and threatened to kill his wife and newborn son. The mother left him, remarried, and had the boy's name changed to that of his step-father. The boy, now known as Gerald Ford, later went on to become the 38th President of the United States.
R7Pw1 TIL that the largest fully-functional pipe organ in the world is in a Macy's in Philadelphia.