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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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R9Qw TIL Before a hurricane, Walmart will fill their stores with strawberry poptarts. This is a result from their data mining and finding stores sold 7x more strawberry poptarts before the storm.
d8lBK TIL that the Chief of Staff of the Nazi German army in 1944 later became the Chairman of NATO
kJYB5 TIL Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas share the same birthday, 25 years apart, and they are married to each other
69PNJ TIL that direct gaze can serve as an explicit and implicit signal of threat or dominance, indicating that overt physical aggression might soon follow, and one should avoid it with predators.
gMVvX TIL Imperial Germany had made plans to invade the US between 1897 and 1903 just to gain some Carribean colonies.