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TIL Faulty coffee machines are one of the most common causes of flight delays.

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wojxW TIL that unicode contains alchemical symbols (🜁🜂🜃🜄 and 104 more) because Indiana University needed to publish Isaac Newton's alchemical works online and pursued the Unicode foundation to add the symbols to assist it and other researchers working with historical and modern alchemical works
vPyYj TIL about “erotomania”, a rare condition in which patients are deluded into believing that somebody who likely doesn’t know them is infatuated with them.
QJaop TIL: Clickhole was brought by Cards Against Humanity in 2020-feb-03
7KGx TIL The 1908 Olympics was hosted in London after being relocated from Rome after Mount Vesuvius erupted. It was also the longest Olympics lasting for 6 months and 4 days.
a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.