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TIL that Fujitsu made a device called the “iPAD” in 2002. Apple had to pay $4 million to Fujitsu to buy the trademark.

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Z8ara Berezniki, in Russia's Ural mountains, is slowly disappearing into the ground. The industrial city, with a population of over 150,000, was built on top of a salt mine. Since the 1980s, huge craters have ripped the soil apart, gradually swallowing factories and offices, demolishing a school and tearing houses apart.
BrPyy TIL when fallout from Chernobyl drifted northwards to Sweden, the mosses and lichens that reindeer survive on during winter months was contaminated with radiation. 73,000 reindeer were killed by the Swedish government, with no compensation given to the local Sámi peoples.
oBynY TIL The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins also provided a handy tip on how to say it: "It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'."
Wka0Y TIL That there was a Nazi Concentration Camp on British soil in the Channel Islands of Alderney
VBAgG TIL: Glaciers and Volcanism have an inverse relationship. Throughout the volcanic record, eruptions dropped significantly as the planet cooled and ice expanded. Inversely, as our glaciers melt and erode the land beneath them, humans should expect to see more volcanic activity across the planet.