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TIL: Dr. Pepper was made to taste like the smell of a drug store

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j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
R79JQ TIL dogs wag their tails with a right bias in positive situations and with a left bias in negative situations.
JYlW1 TIL the “my phone is listening in on me” meme is not entirely baseless: Study's findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors are a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones.
AD6gl TIL in 2017 the real estate listing firm Zillow estimated the White House's value at $397.6 million and the monthly rent at $2.1 million.
pY5wN TIL that the first attempt to make a Thomas & Friends TV show was cancelled after one episode in 1953. Among other problems, at one point during the live television broadcast a train was accidentally derailed and had to be replaced on camera.