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TIL that aluminum and aluminium are the same thing…my whole life i thought they were different elements (picture is just filler so i can post this)

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e0Dag TIL that the Royal Society invested so heavily in the publication of The History of Fish that it almost went bankrupt and couldn't fund the publication of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking work Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
J1vbk TIL that the modern practice of crowdfunding projects on the Internet was first successfully pioneered in the late 90s by the British Neo-prog Band Marillion.
Ea60 TIL the South Park parody of Pokemon, “Chinpokomon” is a play on the Japanese word “Chinpoko” which means penis.
QdOd TIL Mattel used patchouli oil to produce the smell of the He-Man action figure Stinkor
Zeap TIL that pickpockets in Paris successfully take advantage of Americans’ eagerness to sign petitions by using young girls to distract them with environmental petitions