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TIL Wordle was developed by software engineer Josh Wardle and gets its name from wordplay based on his last name

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yJQw TIL a company called Beyond Meat makes protein-rich and sustainable meat alternatives made entirely from plants. Bill Gates writes that he was “fooled by how real it tasted” and called it “a taste of the future of food”.
QNRQ6 TIL that when comic artist Dave Cockrum, co-creator of X-Men characters like Storm and Nightcrawler, became seriously ill from diabetes and pneumonia Marvel Comics donated $25k to his treatment but the help was contingent on terms in an NDA.
G6ZQ TIL Men and women have different odors of sweat. Women have more sulfur in their sweat in comparison to men and where female sweat smells more onion-y, male sweat smells more like old cheese.
d68 TIL a Hollywood actress, Hedy Lamarr, invented the basis for modern WiFi and bluetooth in 1941
Y7YPA TIL That FRB 121102, the first known repeating fast radio burst discovered in 2012, unleashes millisecond flashes packing as much energy as our Sun emits in three days and originates from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away