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TIL that some elevators have a mode called Sabbath service which let people use the elevator without pressing a button

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m14QR TIL an airline cancelled the frequent flier miles of a skiplagger (someone who gets off at the connecting flight destination)
47Ow TIL of Angel’s Glow, a condition observed in soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh, when their wounds began to glow blue and heal faster. In 2001, a 17yo discovered it was caused by nematode vomit, the beneficial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens.
KYDZJ TIL about the “Little Joe Penetrometer:” A pistol crossbow prototype weapon designed by the OSS for covert operations in WW2.
M4j0 TIL Dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
XEYNX TIL Cebu City is the busiest sea port in the Philippines and was also once a bustling commercial hub between Mexico and China. However, almost none of its long coastline contains beaches and it is instead occupied by industry, ports, slums and marshlands