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TIL: That 'Waze' is a homophone of 'ways'; as it figures of ways through traffic.

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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
pYY08 TIL beetles make up roughly 25% of all life on planet earth
VMenm TIL in 1994, the then 17-year-old David Hahn made a nuclear reactor from batteries, old clocks, lanterns, uranium from Czechoslovakia and duct tape in a shed next to his mother’s house.
em9L TIL according to Carl Sagan, NASA gave cyanide pills to astronauts to commit suicide in case something went wrong.
1ldW TIL that close to 1800 studies have been conducted over the last 20 years to see the effects of public opinion on policies. The study showed that American public opinion has 0 to negligible effect on policies. But corporate donor effect had a direct correlation to policies.