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TIL that scorpions are arachnids

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W7yaX TIL that Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they chose to set it at nine minutes and a few seconds.
rZkw TIL the California grizzly bear is extinct
pBPG TIL that the place in the United States with the longest name is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, located near Webster, Massachusetts.
epyak TIL Tom Hanks starred in a 1981 film called "Mazes and Monsters" that was based on a false account of a college student losing his grasp of reality from playing Dungeons and Dragons.
XBxk TIL a group of bunnies is called a fluffle.