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TIL that the spinning, animated icon to indicate that something on your screen is loading is called a "Throbber"

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KO9JE Today I Learned: Gargoyles are fancy rain gutters. In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
6ODW TIL Nuclear power is actually better environmentally than coal.
VMw8p TIL Due to their fishy diet, sea lions are considered to have the smelliest farts of any animal
1aaaW TIL that Budweiser is actually a stolen name from a Czech brewery in the city of Budvar (Budweiss) and they’ve been fighting over it since 1907.
gMEbW TIL that Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition called synesthesia that allows him to visualize music.