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TIL that Japan has developed an app for smartphones that lets you send and receive smells.

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xZ9w TIL France has a law requiring tech workers to ignore emails from their bosses after 6pm
G79G TIL that Earthbound has several anti-piracy measures in place, including crashing and deleting all of your save data during the final boss fight if you’re using a pirated copy of the game.
QJmZp TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.
R7wa1 TIL that Tug of War (not a masturbatory reference) was once an Olympic Sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.
4XwpJ TIL the first successful penis transplant went to a soldier who suffered a devastating injury from an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan