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TIL: The fictional company name “Acme” became popular in the 1920s, when numerous companies wanted to be at the top in alphabetized business telephone directories.

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9vb6 TIL Researchers in Tokyo have developed a mirror that tweaks the viewer’s reflection in real-time to make it look like they’re smiling. The projected application for this tech is for use in shopping mall bathrooms, in hopes that happier shoppers will buy more.
ZEGa TIL: That after the Kent state shootings that 58% of respondents blamed the students while 11% blamed the National Guardsmen.
NNJb Scientists detected an atomic nucleus traveling at 99.9999999999999% of the speed of light, with energy 20 quintillion times that of visible light. It was appropriately named the “Oh-My-God Particle.”
oB0eY TIL about the Civil Cooperation Bureau, an innocuous-sounding civilian agency in apartheid South Africa - it was a actually a death squad responsible for a number of murders and controlled by the Minister of Defence, Magnus Malan
9YGdr TIL yogurt’s composition was first broken down by Bulgarian scientist Dr. Grigorov. His work was then picked up by Russian biologist Élie Metchnikoff who established a link between Bulgarian peasants’ yogurt consumption and their very long lives.