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TIL the USSR built a Skynet-like device in the 1980s that would launch a massive nuclear attack without any human intervention if it detected Moscow had been destroyed

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XENaX TIL Brad Fiedel, who wrote the theme for The Terminator, said that the much disputed/odd time signature (13/8 or 12/8) present in the song was due to a timing error in the synths and sequencer loops which were synced by hand.
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P1KdL TIL about the Teleseme, a signaling device with a dial that luxury hotel guests would use to demand over 100 services including ordering cocktails or manservants. These devices faded out of service by the 1910s as hotels started implementing telephone systems.
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