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TIL The Duck Tales theme song spawned from the song Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters written by Mark Mueller

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Z8Gn4 TIL that qr codes have a very large margin of error
E4Bo TIL that there exists an ASCII copy of the matrix from start to finish, and is one of the first torrents ever to have existed. (link goes to a preview of what the movie looks like)
DQLGg TIL the Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common summer accidents or injuries
loEP1 TIL that the "pink slime" that sometimes grows in bathrooms isn't a mold, it's actually an airborne bacterium called Serratia marcescens that feeds on soap, hence why it thrives in bathtubs.
EXQp TIL millions of sunflowers soak up nuclear radiation in Fukushima after scientists discover sunflowers can ‘clean up’ nuclear waste in soil!