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TIL in Japan adult diaper sales are about to surpass baby diapers

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gwoA TIL MIT engineers created a wearable vest that hooks to and e-book and can change the lighting, sound, temperature, chest tightness, and heart of the reader so they can experience what the character in the book is feeling.
yVlPJ TIL for the movie Escape from New York (1981)،Snake Plissken's eyepatch was suggested by Kurt Russell. He pitched himself hard for the role of Snake Plissken, as he was very keen to shake off his Disney image.
eglg TIL a man in his 70s is the only person to have run the NYC marathon every year since it began. He ran it in about 5 hours in 2014 (link in comments).
p8aR8 TIL that 1 in 400 solitaire hands are totally unplayable, meaning "no cards can be moved to the foundations even at the start of the game"
WDpY TIL Heteropaternal superfecundation is a rare medical scenario whereby twins can be born of two separate biological fathers