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TIL that the man who patented the ouija board has a ouija board headstone.

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wogn1 TIL about the Ethiopic term "abugida" - a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; a consonant letter being primary in the unit, and vowel notation being secondary. Letters with shared consonant sounds show resemblance to one another.
gpDb TIL Using only an aluminum can, water, a stirring rod, and thermometers you can measure the elevation of clouds from your location in this simple experiment
694p7 TIL that Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2022 there have been 18 books confirmed to be bound in human skin by the Anthropodermic Book Project.
ADjWn TIL that Pringles aren’t actually chips!! It was ruled in a UK court in 2008 after they found that Pringles are actually only 42% potatoes.
epdv4 TIL that a 'needs repair' US supercomputer with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM was won via auction by a winning bid of $480,085.00.