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TIL Star War’s BB-8 droid patent revealed by Spanish fans that uses sensors (gyroscopes and accelerometers) to determine its position and dynamics.
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TIL that a solar storm equivalent to the Carrington Event missed earth by just 9 days in 2012.
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TIL that in 1999 Brad Pitt rented out a Mexican resort and filled it with friends. He then had the power cut at midnight, the resort raided by the government, and one of his friends "arrested" on drug charges, all as an elaborate prank.
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TIL an Ohio company including a physicist & biomimicry expert is developing a football helmet liner based on the shock-absorbing pelt of hedgehog quills. They've mimicked the structure of a hedgehog quill with a polymer which lets it bend but not break & mimicked the spacing & angle of each quill.
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TIL that the fear of spiders and snakes is an evolutionary trait, not a learned behavior.