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TIL that the Neobuthus factorio, a species of scorpion from the Buthidae family, was named by one of its researchers after the video game Factorio, which was created by the researcher's son.

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Z8eXo TIL Edvard Beneš, the President of the Czech Republic who was exiled in the UK from 1940 to 1945, donated a bus shelter to the villages of Aston Abbotts and Wingrave in 1944. Beneš rented Wingrave Manor for his exiled government and their families, as well as The Abbey at Aston Abbots for himself
N7WXe TIL that the reason old pubs have "Ye Old" instead of "The Old" is because when the printing press was invented in Germany, they didn't have any letters for the old letter Thorn, which made a "th" sound. Thorn ultimately was replaced with Y because they looked similar until the Th start was popular.
VMwM4 TIL Stan Lee had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The first Spider-Man made more than $800 million in revenue, but the producers claimed it did not make any profit and Lee received nothing.
xbj0 TIL: Only 18,741 people (0.17%) of the 11 million that filled out a bracket for the billion dollar bracket challenge are still in the running after yesterday’s upsets.
VljB TIL that a majority of Americans believe China is the world’s top economic power (the US is actually still #1). Interestingly, Republicans and younger Americans are more likely to believe that China has surpassed the United States.