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TIL that bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth - King of Denmark 1000 years ago. The bluetooth logo is made from the Nordic runes of his initials.

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m1nyO TIL that a girl won the Texas state track team championship by herself. In 2008 Bonnie Richardson scored so many points in individual events that no other school could catch up in team events, despite her being the only athlete from a high school of 59 students. In 2009 Richardson did it again!
l7YGN TIL almost no palm trees are native to Southern California. They were used as a marketing ploy to transform Los Angeles for a cow town to “semi-tropical”
BV0d TIL Gears have been discovered in an insect. Interlocking cogs evolved in nature long before we invented them. (VIDEO LINK)
x66X0 TIL that for a brief period in the 1920s, Mongolia was ruled by a German dictator who intended to create a pan-eurasian monarchy spanning from China to Europe
nW86r TIL about the “Tetris Effect” where after playing a video game for significant amount of time, a person can experience altered thoughts, dreams and experiences in their real life.