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TIL: Helium can kill iPhones due to a susceptibility in the processor oscillator.

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N7bO8 TIL That Hans Steininger, a 16th century German Mayor of a small town, died by tripping on his beard. It was over 4 and a ½ feet long and he usually kept it tucked away in a pocket, but during a town fire he forgot to put it in and tripped on in it in the chaos, breaking his neck.
5Y41D TIL that Sony needed military export permits from the Japanese trade ministry for the export of PlayStation 2s. The PS2 was so good at processing high quality images quickly that the Japanese government believed it was possible to adapt it for use in missile guidance systems.
6lN7 TIL that the skeletons in pool scene of the movie Poltergeist were actually real human skeletons, because they were cheaper than buying props.
ByQK TIL that diamonds aren’t all that rare and were manufactured into a romantic symbol by a company called Debeers in the early 1900’s. They own most of the diamond mines in the world and create their own supply and demand.
MV1W TIL Only 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell the odor that asparagus gives urine.