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TIL the wheel was patented in 2001
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TIL that cheetah's distinctive black tear stripes that run from the eyes to the mouth, protect the eyes from the sun’s glare. It is believed that they have the same function as a rifle scope, helping cheetah to focus on it's prey at a long distance range by minimizing the glare of the sun.
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TIL in the 1870s, Steinway & Sons built a company town in a remote part of Queens to isolate their workers from the influence of anarchists and socialists in Lower Manhattan. That area later became Astoria, now considered the US’s premier socialist stronghold.
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TIL Write-only memory is a joke among computer and software engineers. Initially there was no use for a memory circuit from which data could not be retrieved. The first use of the term is generally attributed to Signetics in 1972 and is featured in the Apple IIe Reference Manual.
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TIL that the Love Death & Robots episode Life Hutch is set in the same universe as the legendary The Outer Limits episode Demon With A Glass Hand. Both are set against the backdrop of Harlan Ellison's Earth-Kyba-War.
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TIL that in 2002, researcher Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon, but only 50% of common wildlife species.