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TIL the inventor of the "pop up" later apologized for his invention after seeing how his creation had been used for pop-up advertising

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R5rol TIL that the exact meaning of the letter “p” in the pH scale is unknown because the inventor never bothered to explain what it stood for.
kJvV4 TIL that Makoto Shinkai, director of the anime films Your Name, Weathering with You, and Suzume no Tojimari , had an asteroid named after him in 2018.
WkNKN TIL: Between Oct. 12 and Nov. 14 1930 the eight-story 11,000-ton Indiana Bell building was shifted 52 feet south and rotated 90 degrees.
5YNX9 TIL there is a song in written specifically to sound like a Wings song for the 2008 film Role Models. The song was sang by a Paul McCartney impersonator and referenced to as a real Wings tune throughout the film.
OG4NL TIL because the inventor never bothered to explain what the letter "p" in the pH scale stood for, the exact meaning is unknown.