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TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!

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6ngY TIL that American company MegaBots challenged Japanese manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant mech fight. Suidobashi accepted, saying “Giant robots are Japanese culture. Yeah, I’ll fight. Absolutely.”
neQRd TIL Oklahoma fishermen cannot legally sell paddlefish eggs used to make caviar because the Russian Mafia took control of a rural section of river & started an egg smuggling operation, transporting the eggs for sale in Russia.
OG8gX TIL the 1922 film Nosferatu was such a blatant rip off of Bram Stoker's Dracula that Bram's widow won a lawsuit demanding all copies of the film be destroyed. A single copy found its way to America, where Dracula was in the public domain due to copyright error, allowing the film to survive.
4koo5 TIL that the cows living on Queen Elizabeth's estate sleep on waterbeds.
yQnMV TIL how India Pale Ale (IPA) got its name and taste. It's a beer that was invented in Britain in the 19th century for the Indian market, with extra hops added to survive the 6 month travel.