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TIL the Japanese have a word (tsundoku [積ん読]) for the habit of buying a lot of books and never reading them.

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nK6Y TIL Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the inventor of RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun and reportedly said, “‘My God, if I’d known what they were going to do with it, I’d have never have invented it!”
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