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TIL Disney’s Tower of Terror drop tower has been developed by Otis, whose normal job is to make elevator rides as smoothly as possible

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KYbOE TIL Evolution can occur through several avenues of genetic variation- mutations, sex & recombination, gene flow, and epigenetics
W7RyX TIL that Bram Stoker’s widow Florence had the 1921 film Nosferatu declared a copyright infringement. She sued the production company into bankruptcy, ordered all copies burned, and had the court declare that owning a copy was illegal. The resulting cult status led to several copies surviving.
vBr4 TIL of Cunninghams Law “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
9wgrQ TIL about Eudes de Sully, Bishop of Paris who tried to ban chess
bBMZ TIL that a number far larger than a googol and googolplex exists. Graham’s number is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain a digital representation of the number, assuming one Planck volume per digit.