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TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us

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wLNgE TIL that the 1990s Beanie Babies craze led to a cottage industry of Beanie Babies related crime, including theft and forgery.
XEXy8 TIL The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) was a group of computer hardware manufacturers, from 1989 to 2009/2010. This acronym was difficult to say and remember, and was sometimes jokingly referred to as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
1aLZO TIL recent research argues that fear of spiders has cultural rather biological origins, is predominantly found in Western societies, and comes from an association between spiders and illness that started in the 10th century when the spider was blamed for the devastating epidemics that struck Europe.
ZdBp TIL on Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, Lawrence Oates sacrificed his life when his ill health began to compromise his companions’ chances of survival. Walking into a blizzard he said: “I am going outside and may be some time.” Scott said it was the “act of a brave man and an English gentleman.”
epMpk TIL that the birds we call Penguins today are not actually penguins at all but another species of bird that was named after them because of their looks and their are no true penguins alive today.