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TIL that the classing ‘Kong’ dog toy is so called because a friend of the creator thought it looked like 'An earplug for King Kong’

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V8DG TIL Researchers at MIT studied phantom traffic jams (jams that arise in the absence of any obstacles) and found they are inevitable at a certain vehicle density threshold. The waves of traffic are named Jamitons, and are similar to the equations that describe detonation waves produced by explosions.
nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.
VMlw8 TIL that a when applying for college, Julian Hernandez learned he had been kidnapped for 13 years
kJLMg TIL Michael Jordan told director Ben Affleck that Viola Davis "has to" play his mom in Affleck's film Air. Casting Davis in a film was a lifelong career ambition for Affleck. When she said yes, he concluded that "a lot of it had to do with me being like, 'Michael Jordan wants you to play his mom.'”
v1dgK TIL fuel tankers are pretty sophisticated. Baffles in the tank to evenly dissipate the force of liquid moving when the truck is accelerating or braking. Without baffles, the liquid keeps moving forward to surge and push against the front wall of the tank, increasing risk of rollover.