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TIL In 2019, a hipster complained to MIT Technology Review for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same, end up discovering the picture was of an entirely different hipster

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OG9AY TIL when Richard Hopper went to buy a lottery ticket, the clerk told him they had accidentally printed a ticket for a previous customer who didn't want it and asked him if he wanted to buy that ticket or a new one. He bought the already printed ticket and won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery.
KWv4 TIL: Hummingbirds are constantly hours away from starving to death, only being able to store enough energy to survive overnight. Having the highest metabolic rate of animal kingdom, their heart can reach 1260 BPM and they’ll breath 250 times a minute at rest.
mxKao TIL an optical disc called Holographic Versatile Disc was developed that can store up to 6TB of data but never appeared in the market.
xZLo TIL that British political sitcom The Thick of It had a ‘swearing consultant’ who would add more imaginative bad language to the scripts
EgQxx TIL the Cincinnati Reds changed their name to "Redlegs" in 1953 due to fears the old name was associated with communism.