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TIL that IBM made a movie, quite literally, out of atoms.
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TIL There was a Parrot named Alex that had a vocabulary of over 100 words. He was said to have the intelligence of a 5 year old. The last words he said to his trainer before passing away were “See you tomorrow, be good. I love you!”
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TIL that 300ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a stone marker over a century old that warns, “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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TIL that there is a satellite called LAGEOS that will return to earth in 8.4 million years. Inscribed on it is a picture of what scientists think the continents will look like at that time.
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TIL a Berlin-based artist tricked Google Maps into thinking that a completely empty street was bursting with traffic by filling a wagon with 99 smartphones, opening Maps navigation on all of them, and then slowly pulling the wagon along Berlin streets.
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TIL To combat waves of kids poking each other in the eye, Moses Horwitz (Moe of The Three Stooges) got The Three Stooges to appear on TV shows to demonstrate how they did this trick safely