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TIL Owen and Luke Wilson are brothers! And they have an older brother!

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QNDN6 TIL that Apple code-named the PowerMac 7100 “Carl Sagan.” Sagan sent a C&D letter, Apple complied, renaming it “BHA” for “Butthead Astronomer.” Settling out of court, the final name became “LAW” for “Lawyers are Wimps.”
v17Kx TIL about Moravec's paradox which says that reasoning requires less computation while perception requires enormous computation
d8pWd TIL Kepler-22b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the sun-like star Kepler-22. Located about 587 light-years from Earth, it's in the constellation of Cygnus. Discovered in Dec. 2011, it was the first known transiting planet to orbit within the habitable zone, meaning we could survive there...
ANoyB TIL that “cute aggression” occurs when the human brain is overwhelmed by a cute animal or object, causing aggressive thoughts to counteract the overwhelming positive one.
KOGYR TIL in 1997 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, a pot-bellied pig named Lulu saved her owner, having a heart attack. Lulu heard the owner's cries of pain then forced her way out of the yard and played dead on the road. Lulu successfully stopped a car and guided help to the owner, she survived.