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TIL. That cruise ships keep infrared cameras on the sides of the ships to spot people who fall overboard.

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W75Y TIL Dementors from the Harry Potter series were inspired by J.K. Rowling’s bouts with clinical depression
v16X8 TIL that the virtual currencies of games like RuneScape are worth more than the currency of Venezuela
6lMY TIL that pizza wasn’t popular in the U.S. until after WWII, when U.S. troops (including Dwight Eisenhower) returned home from occupied Italy with an appreciation for Italian pizza.
bR1E TIL that one man is responsible for saving ‘a billion lives’ by developing different strains of wheat crop, thereby averting predicted famines.
R5xyl TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA experimented with using pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to conduct aerial surveillance. While it sounds like a joke, pigeons were genuinely deployed for spy missions!