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TIL that Tesla named their fastest car, the Model S Plaid, as an homage to the 1987 cult classic movie Spaceballs in which the starship speeds are Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, Ludicrous Speed, and Plaid Speed.

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e0l16 TIL that the males of at least 30 species of spiders will tie females up in silk threads known as “bridal veils” in order to give themselves enough time to escape from being eaten after sex.
grPVW TIL Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church
8Zy8 TIL the Eternal September is a term that refers to the month when Usenet experienced a large influx of AOL users… the network’s existing culture couldn’t integrate the sheer number of new users, and according to pre-1993 users, never fully recovered
YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
XE8o8 TIL of the "Wood Wide Web", an underground network of fungal threads and other microbes that allows sharing of nutrients between different plant species.