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TIL Uranium and Plutonium are named after Uranus and Pluto
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TIL That Marvel comics 'forgot' to credit writer Harlan Ellison for using one of his stories in the Incredible Hulk comic. Harlan could have successfully sued them, but settled for a normal writer's fee and a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel published.
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TIL in 1984, two masked men kidnapped the president of Glico, the maker of Pocky, naked from his house for ransom. The president later escaped but the men were never caught. They later taunted police in letters and called themselves The Monster with 21 Faces
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TIL: Bats compete with one another for food by jamming each other's sonar signals that they use to hunt insects.
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TIL that Canadian engineers wear a ring to remind them of the seriousness of their profession.
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TIL about the Atomic Energy Lab. A toy lab set created in 1950 so that kids could create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions. However, merely a year later, it was pulled from shelves as it contained real samples of the radioactive element Uranium in it.