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TIL that “Wi-Fi” isn’t short for “Wireless Fidelity” it was just a marketing name.

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1rnd TIL a Dairy Queen in Kentucky accepted a fake $200 bill, giving 198 in change
ANbja TIL the cylinder at the end of some power cords is called a ferrite bead, which helps block electromagnetic interference from going out or coming into the device; in short, it prevents a device from acting as an unintentional radiator or antenna.
5V1ZQ TIL during a remodeling project, engineers in China moved an entire bus terminal weighing a total of about 30k tons using hundreds of hydraulic jacks and rolling tracks.
grmmb TIL that after South Korea beat Germany at the FIFA World Cup 2018, ensuring Mexico’s place in the knockout, hundreds of Mexican fans descended on the South Korean embassy in Mexico City to celebrate
4XLDo TIL The oldest known written complaint, is a clay tablet from ancient Babylon written c. 1750 BCE.