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ynOM TIL Hooters offered employees the chance to win a Toyota. When the winning waitress was given a “toy Yoda” action figure as a prank she sued and won enough to “pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants.”
d8LdZ TIL that in 1493, Christopher Columbus saw 'mermaids' and dexcribed them as 'not half as beautiful as they are painted' - they were actually manatees.
4Xm6o TIL the small elephant hawk moth (Deilephila porcellus) gets its common name for the caterpillar head's resemblance to an elephant's trunk. Hawk moths are also known as sphinx moths because the caterpillar resembles the Great Sphinx of Giza when resting. They are found in Europe and northern Africa.
p8jQQ TIL about absorption cooling: freeze things by burning stuff (or using residual heat from other processes, such as water heating). Patented back in 1859-1860, with the first commercial application in 1925, this process is still used today in gas powered refrigerators, typically found in RVs.
5Vn59 TIL about The Mpemba Effect- hot water can freeze faster than cold water 🤯