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Xl0X TIL Pikachu’s name comes from the onomatopoetic word “pikapika” which is the Japanese sound for electricity sparking, and “chuchu” which is the sound small mice make.
XE1dk TIL William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for a housing charity
dDrJ7 TIL that it is not known exactly when the University of Oxford was founded
WkpXA TIL that NASA ground controllers were once shocked to hear a female voice from the space station, apparently interacting with them, which had an all-male crew. They had been pranked by an astronaut who used a recording of his wife.
epPlL TIL that copra, dried coconut meat which contains concentrated coconut oil, is banned from flights in India due to the risk of spontaneous combustion.