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TIL: Georg Alexander Pick, mathematician who helped Einstein on general relativity, died in a concentration camp

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j6JyM TIL: A sex toy maker agreed to pay customers up to C$10,000 each for selling a “smart vibrator,” which tracked owners’ use without their knowledge. Two hackers had demonstrated the company was collecting information about users, including device temperature and vibration intensity.
wLrW8 TIL that the infamous 1971 D.B.Cooper plane hijacking remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI officially suspended their active investigation in July 2016. The 60-volume case file is open to the public to read.
ADPWd TIL someone actually set up a solar powered MP3 and speaker in the middle of the Namibian desert to play play “Africa” by Toto for eternity
xoAg TIL Oscar the cat, a stray taken in by a Rhode Island nursing home, seems to only visit patients shortly before death. He is so accurate in predicting peoples death, that their families are notified as soon as he gets cozy to a patient.
Eg1Bp TIL that Steve McQueen was on Charles Manson’s ‘Hit List’ and was meant to be assassinated like Sharon Tate in 1969