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TIL Star War’s BB-8 droid patent revealed by Spanish fans that uses sensors (gyroscopes and accelerometers) to determine its position and dynamics.

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gMweL TIL about Marco Bragadin gruesomely killed, first dragged around with sacks of stone on his back; then tied to a chair and hoisted up a Turkish flagship, then tied to a column and flayed alive, then his skin was stuffed and redressed in his military clothes, then rode on an ox around town
mR6E TIL in 2010, a 3-year old boy playing with his father’s metal detector for the first time discovered a 16th century golden pendant estimated to be worth $4 million.
j51p TIL A Finnish food company was forced to rebrand its line of meatballs, as they did not contain enough meat. They are now known simply as ‘balls’.
Na9E TIL that the charity organization “Fuck for Forest” runs the only porn site specifically created to raise money for a cause (in FFFs case: fighting deforestation)
apMA TIL that of the 14 currently recommended vaccinations, 8 of them were developed by one man, Maurice Hilleman. He is commonly credited with saving more lives than any other single scientist of the 20th Century.