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TIL the creator of Microsoft DirectX said that the "radiation" logo and the internal name "The Manhattan Project" was an intentional reference to atomic bombs, since they wanted to dethrone the Japanese from their dominance of the video game industry

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d8No8 TIL two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.
X0E48 TIL 250 people in the US have cryogenically preserved their bodies to be revived later.
kOGO1 TIL Spitting Spiders catch their prey by spitting fluid containing both venom and spider silk that congeals on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. The spiders sway from side to side as they "spit", catching the prey in a crisscrossed "Z" pattern. The entire attack lasts 1/700th of a second.
DQ1OV TIL that the tallest building in Denmark is a hospital