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TIL, how not to piss off an angry japanese slenderman

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VBpJm TIL Subbuteo was named after the "falco subbeteo" bird because its creator wasn't granted a trademark for its original name Hobby. The "falco subbuteo" is the Latin name for the "Eurasian hobby" bird.
1aJR8 TIL modern Hard Disk Drives have read/write heads that float 4 to 5 nanometers above the surface of the disk while it spins. For scale, a human hair is 80,000-100,000 nm thick.
rBmx TIL Since 1965, a nuclear reactor has been orbiting the Earth. It’s broken now but will continue its orbit for another 4000 years
KjK6 TIL in June 1979, there was a record in the billboard top 100 called Ready N steady by D.A. This record is so rare to find that people are questioning it’s existence. This is called a case of “phantom recording”
47mN TIL: Spiders are often Omniverous, using their web to catch pollen, which can make up 25% of their diet.