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TIL Wi-Fi was developed by using technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes.

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16nW TIL That Bill Murray calls Kelly Lynch’s husband every time the Road House sex scene is on and tells him he’s watching Swayze bone his wife.
vrA7 TIL the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (the largest study of its kind) concluded that human actions are depleting Earth’s natural capital in such a way that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.
R5KBj TIL scientists made a real human-monkey hybrid in 2019 but ceased the embryo's development after a few weeks.
7rlDP TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.
LkALP TIL that it was forbidden for the feet of Aztec rulers to touch the ground. Their courtiers would lay out pieces of clothes for them to step on and they were carried around in litters for ceremonial occasions.