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TIL that Boeing in 2012 used potatoes to test Wi-Fi on airplanes

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jVeX TIL Shia LaBeouf’s name literally translates to “Thank God for Beef.”
neP79 TIL the very first sci-fi novel, A True Story, was written in ancient Greek in the 2nd century AD. It featured space travel, aliens, robots, artificial atmospheres and more
dDr7Q TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.
4kAR5 TIL of the 'Berkeley Mafia' a group of University of California economists in Indonesia who were given technocratic positions under the Suharto dictatorship during the late 1960s. Their work focused on promoting free-market capitalism in Indonesia.
mGM TIL there’s a lake in Senegal with bright pink water