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TIL Rodents Are Feasting On Newer Cars' Soy-Based Wiring Insulation

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vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
eYJ5 TIL that NASA has 2 satellites chasing each other around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitacional anomalies. Their nicknames are “Tom” and “Jerry”.
D14Eg TIL that Loveseats were not invented so that two lovers could sit together. Originally, they were just oversized chairs designed to allow more space for excessively wide women's dresses up until the 18th century.
D1joP TIL about "The Doll Test", which found that given a choice between Black dolls and white dolls, most Black children preferred to play with white dolls and was later cited as a factor in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
BromD TIL The term 'Mahoska' from 'The Untouchables', misquoted as 'mahaska', originates from the Irish phrase 'My Business'.