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TIL 'Underwater Basket Weaving' is trademarked by the US Scuba Center, who offers a 'specialty class' where you create a 'memorable souvenir'.

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W7pad TIL: When people act like Frankenstein's monster, they often stretch their arms out in front of them because of the 1943 movie Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man. In the movie the monster is blinded and has to walk holding his hands in front of him.
nJRB TIL It is often assumed in astrobiology that if life exists somewhere else in the universe, it will also be carbon based.This assumption is referred to by critics as carbon chauvinism.
1aDMr TIL that computers are incapable of producing randomness so when perfoming tasks like procedural generation they use outside sources like the mouse position or the fan noise as a starting point or even use "pseudorandom" generation algorithms using pre-made numbers.
Bn1k TIL That an African grey parrot named Alex was the first, and only non-human animal, to ask an existential question: He asked what color he was.
8y9G TIL Daraprim, the drug aquired by Turing Pharmaceutials that has controversially skyrocketed in price, also treats malaria! The drug is listed on the World Health Organization’s List of Esstential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.