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TIL: Lincoln Logs, the children's building toy, was based on an earthquke-proof construction technique used in a hotel in Japan and was patented by John Wright, the son of the hotel's designer, Frank Lloyd Wright

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KY94G TIL that the universe's largest diamond is found on the white dwarf BPM 37093, which core crystallized turning it mostly into a diamond. The diamond is 10 billion trillion trillion carats, which made scientists give it the nickname Lucy after the iconic Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
wVB6 TIL that you are never actually touching anything. Your atoms’ electrons repel objects when they are 10^-8 meters away from you, but you can feel the force of the resistance. Right now, you’re technically hovering.
D1pjg TIL a man that killed his estranged wife, her daughter who was 14 months old & their son who was 4 with separate knives to not “cross contaminate” their blood & “allow demons inside them to live” & then plucked out his own eyeballs & ate them in prison was declared sane.
pYdG4 TIL Australia has a public collection programme for funnel-web spiders. The public are asked to catch the deadliest spider in the world (capable of killing a child in 15 minutes, and has fangs that can pierce toenails) and take them to designated points. They are milked for the anti-venom programme.
rNVay TIL the actor who played Ned Ryerson, had a garage band that went to a studio to record a couple of songs and had a local kid to lay down the lead guitar.....14 year old Stevie Ray Vaughn.