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Amazon sold someone a Moto Z4 before Motorola has even announced it.

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p8a8G TIL: The decorative tag on running shoe laces is called a dubré or dubrae. Coined in ‘94 by Nike designer Damon Clegg for an ACG boot. Clegg had no name to describe the boot’s ornamental lace tag, so referred to it as a ‘doobrie’ – ‘thingamajig’ in Scottish slang. The name stuck.
GYNgE TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer who accidentally shot and killed himself whilst demonstrating how the victim could've accidentally shot himself
P4jG TIL actor Peter Butterworth was a POW who took part in the actual “Great Escape,” but was rejected for the film for not looking “convincingly heroic or athletic.”
edy6 TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.
X0ad8 TIL multiple studies have indicated 3rd-cousin relationships to be the “genetic sweet spot” for maximum human offspring fitness. Richard Dawkins has even discussed the concept in his literary works