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TIL Japanese researchers created a smoke alarm for the hard of hearing that pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air.

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VoK4 TIL Rick Astley has made a total of $12 from Rickrolling on YouTube
kdG1 TIL US manufacturing jobs are leaving China and returning to robots in the US
vPmdj TIL that Ernesto Miranda, the man whose case led to the famous Miranda Rights, was convicted in a second trial for his crimes that excluded the now-illegal evidence. He was paroled after five years, and fatally stabbed four years later. His killer fled to Mexico and has never been found.
OoPZ1 TIL octopuses have been observed acquiring shiny and reflective objects and planting them around their homes in the sea bed like a garden. The song “Octopus’s Garden” by the Beatles was inspired by the captain of a boat informing Ringo Starr of this fact while on vacation.
wda1 TIL The first female pilot to ever serve in the Norwegian military was beheaded by a mob in Afghanistan in 2011, killed along with 6 others, in retaliation for the burning of the Qur'an by controversial “pastor” Terry Jones in the United States.