wo4V7 TIL that electronic spam is named after Spam (the luncheon meat), by way of a Monty Python sketch about a restaurant that has Spam in almost every dish in which Vikings annoyingly sing "Spam" repeatedly.
R5yb1 TIL that Lio Tipton escaped from being trafficked and sold to a Saudi Arabian prince when first starting off in a modeling career.
W7byB TIL That the longstanding debate about pounds vs Kg is pointless, since the US pound is officially defined as a fraction of a Kg
9wXpB TIL that Alexander the Great's body did not decay for six days after his death. This has led scientists to believe that he may have been buried prematurely thanks to a disorder which caused him to be paralysed and appear to be dead.
nWMld TIL punch cards originated in the textile industry with complex weaving patterns being encoded and executed
4kW4b TIL Labubu is in fact NOT slang for libido
x6nX0 TIL the saying, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain," is from the film The Dark Knight (2008).
5VRnD TIL that the Pearl Jam song “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” was given an absurdly long name because the band felt too many of its songs had one-word titles.
M7pXB TIL about Model Collapse. When an AI learns from other AI generated content, errors can accumulate, like making a photocopy of a photocopy over and over again.
j6bep TIL that a series called "Manga de Dokuha" adapts 139 classic works into manga, including Bible, Quran, Heart Sutra, Book of the Dead, Divine Comedy, Discourse on Method, The Social Contract, On the Origin of Species, The Antichrist, Theory of Relativity, Wealth of Nations, Capital, and Mein Kampf.
0dxeM TIL that until scientist started growing cuttings, there was only one Putuo Hornbeam tree left in this world, a single 200 year old tree behind a mountaintop temple.
grbW7 TIL The UK has only electrified 38% of its rail.