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TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German in origin, but is named for an English-American chocolate maker Samuel German

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VMrZm TIL Each episode of A.L.F. (Alien Life Form) took 20-25 hours to shoot and was extremely demanding on the crew. Max Wright, the dad in the show, despised supporting a demanding inanimate object and at one time become "crazed", physically attacking the puppet.
yVoEw TIL: In 2021, a 30-year-old Brazilian man was fishing with two friends at a lake in Brazil, when the group was attacked by bees. The man and his friends jumped into the lake to escape the bees, but the Brazilian man drowned and was partially eaten by piranhas; his friends survived.
9Y0lB TIL engineers plan to build a space elevator on the Moon tethered to a counterweight floating in a “Lagrange Point”, a pocket of gravitational equilibrium in our Earth-Moon system. We will sling rockets into space using centrifugal force at the top of the elevator.
yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
8LOX TIL, Brian Banks did 5 yrs in jail after a high school girl falsely accused him of rape. She also sued the school district & won $1.5m. Yrs later she admitted to him that she lied. He taped the conversation, his conviction was overturned & the school district sued her back for $2.6m